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Journal of Global Optimization is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 0925-5001Verify ISSN ↗1573-2916Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$2,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 58 / 198 | 70th | Q2 |
| Applied Mathematics | 216 / 680 | 68th | Q2 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 92 / 235 | 61st | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 516 / 1022 | 49th | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 123 / 225 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Journal of Global Optimization is Q2 in Control and Optimization (rank 58 of 198), Q2 in Applied Mathematics (rank 216 of 680) and Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 92 of 235), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Global Optimization 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.808, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 105.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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 Global Optimization is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 0925-5001 and its online ISSN is 1573-2916.
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 graded 2 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.
Journal of Global Optimization has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 2.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #43 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Journal of Global Optimization published 122 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 156. 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 (29.1%), United States (17.3%) and Germany (5.7%).
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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