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Managerial and Decision Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.3), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0143-6570Verify ISSN ↗1099-1468Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,120 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Science and Operations Research | 82 / 225 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 168 / 456 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 122 / 317 | 61st | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 199 / 506 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.3.
Managerial and Decision Economics is Q2 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 82 of 225), Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 168 of 456) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 122 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Managerial and Decision Economics 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.671, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 71.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,120 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.
Managerial and Decision Economics is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0143-6570 and its online ISSN is 1099-1468.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Managerial and Decision Economics has an h-index of 100 and a 2-year mean of 4.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 209 Scopus journals in Management Science and Operations Research.
Managerial and Decision Economics published 183 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 401. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (59.8%), United States (7.3%) and Germany (4.5%). 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 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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