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Journal of Uncertain Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific.
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Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 38 / 198 | 81st | Q1 |
| Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | 62 / 183 | 66th | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 231 / 570 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present (also 2011–2019), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Journal of Uncertain Systems is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 38 of 198), Q2 in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (rank 62 of 183) and Q2 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 231 of 570), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Uncertain Systems is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1, 81st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.464, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Journal of Uncertain Systems is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 1752-8909 and its online ISSN is 1752-8917.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Uncertain Systems has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 7.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Journal of Uncertain Systems published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 50. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (33.3%), India (20.4%) and United States (9.4%).
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 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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