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Journal of Behavioral Decision Making is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.3), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0894-3257Verify ISSN ↗1099-0771Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 127 / 692 | 81st | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 388 / 1530 | 74th | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 132 / 258 | 49th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 264 / 506 | 47th | Q3 |
| Decision Sciences (all) | 26 / 43 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.3.
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 127 of 692), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 388 of 1530) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 132 of 258), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.845, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 99.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,700 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.
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0894-3257 and its online ISSN is 1099-0771.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (General) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making has an h-index of 127 and a 2-year mean of 1.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 73. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.9%), China (11.4%) and Germany (9.2%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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