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Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.2), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 1057-9214Verify ISSN ↗1099-1360Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy and Management | 201 / 506 | 60th | Q2 |
| Decision Sciences (all) | 22 / 43 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2005–2006, 1992–2003), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.2.
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 201 of 506) and Q2 in Decision Sciences (all) (rank 22 of 43), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.550, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 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 Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1057-9214 and its online ISSN is 1099-1360.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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 Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 1.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #303 of 476 Scopus journals in Strategy and Management.
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 45. 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 100 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (13.7%), India (10.7%) and Italy (6.8%).
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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