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Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.8), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 0972-2696Verify ISSN ↗0974-0198Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$2,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 7 / 235 | 97th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 40 / 456 | 91st | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 16 / 143 | 89th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 57 / 506 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.8.
Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 7 of 235), Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 40 of 456) and Q1 in Management Information Systems (rank 16 of 143), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.8, quartile Q1, 97th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.139, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,190 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 0972-2696 and its online ISSN is 0974-0198.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 10.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 52. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (37.9%), United States (8.8%) and Australia (6.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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