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Optimization is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0233-1934Verify ISSN ↗1029-4945Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 43 / 198 | 78th | Q1 |
| Applied Mathematics | 170 / 680 | 75th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 107 / 225 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
Optimization is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 43 of 198), Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 170 of 680) and Q2 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 107 of 225), by CiteScore 2025.
Optimization 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.753, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
Optimization is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0233-1934 and its online ISSN is 1029-4945.
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 is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations Research and Management Science field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Optimization has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 1.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Optimization published 161 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 208. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (36.2%), Vietnam (8.8%) and United States (6.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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