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Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.9), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1569-190XVerify ISSN ↗1878-1462Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 19 / 397 | 95th | Q1 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 32 / 245 | 87th | Q1 |
| Software | 71 / 503 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.9.
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 19 of 397), Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 32 of 245) and Q1 in Software (rank 71 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 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 9.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.962, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 95.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,890 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.
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1569-190X and its online ISSN is 1878-1462.
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 graded 2 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.
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory has an h-index of 100 and a 2-year mean of 4.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory published 168 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (38.8%), India (8.1%) and Italy (6.9%).
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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