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Multibody System Dynamics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 1384-5640Verify ISSN ↗1573-272XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$4,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 21 / 198 | 89th | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 59 / 397 | 85th | Q1 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 34 / 169 | 80th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 178 / 740 | 76th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 317 / 1022 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Multibody System Dynamics is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 21 of 198), Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 59 of 397) and Q1 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 34 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Multibody System Dynamics 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.819, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 80.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,190 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.
Multibody System Dynamics is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 1384-5640 and its online ISSN is 1573-272X.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Multibody System Dynamics has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 2.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Multibody System Dynamics published 95 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (29.4%), Germany (16.3%) and Italy (9.3%).
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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