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International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 0218-1274Verify ISSN ↗1793-6551Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary | 46 / 223 | 79th | Q1 |
| Applied Mathematics | 140 / 680 | 79th | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 114 / 397 | 71st | Q2 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 103 / 300 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos is Q1 in Multidisciplinary (rank 46 of 223), Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 140 of 680) and Q2 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 114 of 397), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.563, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 124.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 0218-1274 and its online ISSN is 1793-6551.
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 Bifurcation and Chaos has an h-index of 142 and a 2-year mean of 2.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 208 Scopus journals in Multidisciplinary.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos published 286 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 310. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (49.7%), India (11.3%) and United States (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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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