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System Dynamics Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0883-7066Verify ISSN ↗1099-1727Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,270 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 65 / 744 | 91st | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 56 / 397 | 86th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 109 / 317 | 65th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 175 / 506 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
System Dynamics Review is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 65 of 744), Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 56 of 397) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 109 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
System Dynamics Review 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.097, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,270 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.
System Dynamics Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0883-7066 and its online ISSN is 1099-1727.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Business systems in context.
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.
System Dynamics Review has an h-index of 98 and a 2-year mean of 5.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
System Dynamics Review published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 41. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (46.9%), Norway (11.1%) and United Kingdom (9.5%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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