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Service Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. Published by INFORMS.
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ISSN 2164-3962Verify ISSN ↗2164-3970Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: INFORMS
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 92 / 397 | 76th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 176 / 456 | 61st | Q2 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 91 / 225 | 59th | Q2 |
| Marketing | 106 / 221 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Service Science is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 92 of 397), Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 176 of 456) and Q2 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 91 of 225), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Service Science 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.309, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
Service Science is published by INFORMS. Its print ISSN is 2164-3962 and its online ISSN is 2164-3970.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B 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 and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Service Science has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 2.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #136 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Service Science published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 42. 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 95 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.2%), China (17.7%) and Canada (5.8%).
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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