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IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.8), ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity.
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Publisher: IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity
Cost to publish: About US$2,645 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 34 / 1030 | 96th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 14 / 390 | 96th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 38 / 1022 | 96th | Q1 |
| Software | 19 / 503 | 96th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 11 / 196 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 2011, 1996), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.8.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 34 of 1030), Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 14 of 390) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 38 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 17.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.806, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 196.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,645 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.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems is published by IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity. Its print ISSN is 2168-2216 and its online ISSN is 2168-2232.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
It is graded 3 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.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems has an h-index of 184 and a 2-year mean of 7.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems published 840 papers in 2025. 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (69.9%), South Korea (3.6%) and United States (3.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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