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Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization is indexed in Web of Science (SCIE), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. Published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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ISSN 1547-5816Verify ISSN ↗1553-166XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 51 / 198 | 74th | Q2 |
| Applied Mathematics | 196 / 680 | 71st | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 222 / 456 | 51st | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 261 / 506 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (2007–present).
Journal of Industrial and Management 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.347, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization is published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 1547-5816 and its online ISSN is 1553-166X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
It is rated B 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.
Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2.
Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization published 208 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 275. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (63.1%), Türkiye (5.3%) and United States (3.7%). 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: Inactive — coverage ended 2026. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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