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International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), formerly ABDC C. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1743-5110Verify ISSN ↗1743-5129Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 129 / 282 | 54th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 279 / 456 | 38th | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 151 / 225 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management is Q2 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 129 of 282), Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 279 of 456) and Q3 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 151 of 225), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management 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 2.3, quartile Q2, 54th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.238, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 26.
International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1743-5110 and its online ISSN is 1743-5129.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2016 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 37. 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 54 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Italy (17.9%), France (16.7%) and Indonesia (9.3%).
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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