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Group Decision and Negotiation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0926-2644Verify ISSN ↗1572-9907Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$2,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 47 / 692 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 33 / 286 | 88th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 108 / 317 | 66th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 174 / 506 | 65th | Q2 |
| Decision Sciences (all) | 21 / 43 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Group Decision and Negotiation is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 47 of 692), Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 33 of 286) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 108 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Group Decision and Negotiation is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.582, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 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.
Group Decision and Negotiation is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0926-2644 and its online ISSN is 1572-9907.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations Research and Management Science field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Group Decision and Negotiation has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 2.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Group Decision and Negotiation published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 64. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (41.8%), Germany (7.5%) and United States (6.5%).
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 none 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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