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Management Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.8), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SCIE/SSCI, FT50, UT Dallas 24. Published by INFORMS.
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ISSN 0025-1909Verify ISSN ↗1526-5501Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: INFORMS
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Science and Operations Research | 29 / 225 | 87th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 72 / 506 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.8.
Management Science is Q1 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 29 of 225) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 72 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Management Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 11.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.428, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 321.
Management Science is published by INFORMS. Its print ISSN is 0025-1909 and its online ISSN is 1526-5501.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations Research and Management Science field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Management Science has an h-index of 480 and a 2-year mean of 6.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 209 Scopus journals in Management Science and Operations Research.
Management Science published 528 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (52.6%), China (10.7%) and Hong Kong SAR China (6%). 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. 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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