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Journal of Risk Model Validation is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. Published by Risk Waters Group..
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ISSN 1753-9579Verify ISSN ↗1753-9587Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Risk Waters Group.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 310 / 397 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Applied Mathematics | 531 / 680 | 21st | Q4 |
| Finance | 277 / 342 | 19th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 622 / 755 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Risk Model Validation is Q4 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 310 of 397), Q4 in Applied Mathematics (rank 531 of 680) and Q4 in Finance (rank 277 of 342), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Risk Model Validation is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.127, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Risk Model Validation is published by Risk Waters Group. Its print ISSN is 1753-9579 and its online ISSN is 1753-9587.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Banking, finance and investment.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Risk Model Validation has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #257 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Journal of Risk Model Validation published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 19. 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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