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Understanding Complex Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computational Mechanics | 64 / 99 | 35th | Q3 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 398 / 570 | 30th | Q3 |
| Software | 412 / 503 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Understanding Complex Systems is Q3 in Computational Mechanics (rank 64 of 99), Q3 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 398 of 570) and Q4 in Software (rank 412 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Understanding Complex Systems is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3, 35th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Understanding Complex Systems is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1860-0832 and its online ISSN is 1860-0840.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Understanding Complex Systems has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 86 Scopus journals in Computational Mechanics.
Understanding Complex Systems published 76 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 198. 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.
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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