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Knowledge-Based Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.7), formerly ABDC A, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0950-7051Verify ISSN ↗1872-7409Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,430 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 15 / 222 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Software | 38 / 503 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 50 / 570 | 91st | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 14 / 143 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.7.
Knowledge-Based Systems is Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 15 of 222), Q1 in Software (rank 38 of 503) and Q1 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 50 of 570), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Knowledge-Based 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 13.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.753, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 206.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,430 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.
Knowledge-Based Systems is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0950-7051 and its online ISSN is 1872-7409.
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 was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Knowledge-Based Systems has an h-index of 222 and a 2-year mean of 6.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
Knowledge-Based Systems published 2,083 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 81 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (57.9%), South Korea (6.8%) and Taiwan (3.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 10 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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