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International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.9), ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1755-8077Verify ISSN ↗1755-8085Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 111 / 222 | 50th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 461 / 755 | 39th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 338 / 506 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 165 / 225 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.9.
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences is Q2 in Information Systems and Management (rank 111 of 222), Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 461 of 755) and Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 338 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences 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 1.9, quartile Q2, 50th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.248, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1755-8077 and its online ISSN is 1755-8085.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations Research and Management Science field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 79. 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 56 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (25%), Iran (16.1%) and India (15.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.3 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.
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