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Software and Systems Modeling is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 1619-1366Verify ISSN ↗1619-1374Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 27 / 397 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Software | 97 / 503 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.3.
Software and Systems Modeling is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 27 of 397) and Q1 in Software (rank 97 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Software and Systems Modeling 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 8.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.660, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 64.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Software and Systems Modeling is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 1619-1366 and its online ISSN is 1619-1374.
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.
Software and Systems Modeling has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 2.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Software and Systems Modeling published 109 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 120. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (19.8%), Canada (10.8%) and Italy (9.2%).
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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