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Journal of Manufacturing Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 27.7), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0278-6125Verify ISSN ↗1878-6642Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,850 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware and Architecture | 1 / 245 | 99th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 4 / 390 | 99th | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 5 / 425 | 98th | Q1 |
| Software | 7 / 503 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 27.7.
Journal of Manufacturing Systems is Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 1 of 245), Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 4 of 390) and Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 5 of 425), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Manufacturing Systems 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 27.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.304, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 138.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,850 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 Manufacturing Systems is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0278-6125 and its online ISSN is 1878-6642.
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 rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Manufacturing Systems has an h-index of 169 and a 2-year mean of 15.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 27.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 166 Scopus journals in Hardware and Architecture.
Journal of Manufacturing Systems published 274 papers in 2025. 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (48.5%), United States (15.2%) and Germany (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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