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International Journal of General Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0308-1079Verify ISSN ↗1563-5104Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 86 / 397 | 78th | Q1 |
| Theoretical Computer Science | 40 / 135 | 70th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 127 / 390 | 67th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 177 / 519 | 65th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 367 / 1022 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
International Journal of General Systems is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 86 of 397), Q2 in Theoretical Computer Science (rank 40 of 135) and Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 127 of 390), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of General 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.530, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
International Journal of General Systems is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0308-1079 and its online ISSN is 1563-5104.
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 rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Business systems in context.
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, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of General Systems has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 2.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #115 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
International Journal of General Systems published 93 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (56.6%), Spain (5.9%) and Iran (5.1%). 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. 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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