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International Journal of Approximate Reasoning is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0888-613XVerify ISSN ↗1873-4731Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,050 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 69 / 680 | 89th | Q1 |
| Theoretical Computer Science | 29 / 135 | 78th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 174 / 570 | 69th | Q2 |
| Software | 159 / 503 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning is Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 69 of 680), Q1 in Theoretical Computer Science (rank 29 of 135) and Q2 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 174 of 570), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.659, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 119.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,050 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.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0888-613X and its online ISSN is 1873-4731.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning has an h-index of 134 and a 2-year mean of 2.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #109 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning published 193 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 208. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (39.6%), France (11.4%) and Germany (6.4%).
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.
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