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Production Planning and Control is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.2), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, 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 0953-7287Verify ISSN ↗1366-5871Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Science and Operations Research | 3 / 225 | 98th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 11 / 506 | 97th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 24 / 1022 | 97th | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 12 / 425 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.2.
Production Planning and Control is Q1 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 3 of 225), Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 11 of 506) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 24 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Production Planning and Control 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 21.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.025, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 121.
Production Planning and Control is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0953-7287 and its online ISSN is 1366-5871.
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 A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Production Planning and Control has an h-index of 138 and a 2-year mean of 7.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 209 Scopus journals in Management Science and Operations Research.
Production Planning and Control published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 179. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (13.5%), China (13.1%) and Australia (9.6%).
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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