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Journal of Machine Learning Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Microtome Publishing.
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ISSN 1532-4435Verify ISSN ↗1533-7928Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Microtome Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Probability | 6 / 303 | 98th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 27 / 390 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Software | 39 / 503 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 53 / 570 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.3.
Journal of Machine Learning Research is Q1 in Statistics and Probability (rank 6 of 303), Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 27 of 390) and Q1 in Software (rank 39 of 503), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Machine Learning Research 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 13.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.997, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 302.
Journal of Machine Learning Research is published by Microtome Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1532-4435 and its online ISSN is 1533-7928.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Machine Learning Research has an h-index of 131 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #278 of 294 Scopus journals in Statistics and Probability.
Journal of Machine Learning Research published 1 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 169. 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.
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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