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Journal rankings · indicator year 2001

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Field ranking · 2001

Decision Sciences journal rankings 2001

76 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences

Decision Sciences has 76 ranked journals in 2001. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2000 to 0.91, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are Operations Research, Educational Measurement Issues and Practice, and INFORMS journal on computing.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 score is computed on.

76
2% of Social Sciences
Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

0.91+0.09 vs 2000
This fieldAll 0.68World 1.00
Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

7%
All fields: 12%
Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,313
Median positive listed APC: $3,313 among 46 journals. 30 have no known price. All fields: $3,560.

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76 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Decision Sciences ranking, 2001

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields.

The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list.

OJR

Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field.

▲ or ▼ is the change from 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.

List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.

The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2001.

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1Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
3.34Q11.51 0.07 down from 20002715%—
3.17Q11.03 0.02 up from 2000926%$3,240
3INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
2.92Q11.62 0.10 up from 20001114%—
4Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States
2.33Q11.17 0.39 up from 200019912%$2,720
5Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States
2.24Q11.17 0.39 down from 20001190%$2,500
6Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
2.16Q11.34 0.10 down from 200014510%—
7Journal of Clinical EpidemiologyElsevier BV · United States
2.00Q12.18 0.24 down from 20004745%$4,210
8ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States
1.99Q10.66 0.86 down from 2000496%—
9Journal of Quality TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States
1.85Q10.82 0.45 down from 20002240%—
10Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.78Q10.97 0.04 up from 200022513%—
11OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.72Q10.97 0.11 down from 20001682%$4,030
12New Directions for EvaluationWiley · United States
1.72Q11.09 0.14 down from 2000995%$3,140
13Applied Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States
1.71Q10.96 0.81 down from 20001117%$3,650
14Journal of Risk and UncertaintySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.65Q11.23 0.48 up from 2000854%$3,090
15Operations Research LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.61Q10.75 0.16 down from 20001695%$2,960
16Structural SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.61Q10.78 0.24 down from 2000670%$4,430
17Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom
1.55Q10.87 0.51 down from 2000579%$3,040
18Journal of Business EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.54Q10.78 0.08 down from 20005024%$3,790
19Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.40Q10.96 0.02 down from 2000864%$3,190
20Thinking & ReasoningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.37Q21.52 0.38 up from 20004711%—
21International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.31Q20.73 0.47 down from 20001324%$2,800
22Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom
1.26Q20.64 0.06 up from 20001,28110%—
23Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States
1.25Q20.97 0.14 up from 20002189%$3,650
24Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States
1.23Q20.59 0.16 up from 2000870%$3,900
25Learned PublishingWiley · United Kingdom
1.21Q20.46 0.25 up from 200014053%$2,080
26Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden
1.21Q20.48 0.59 down from 2000390%—
27Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.20Q20.58 0.09 down from 20004782%$3,090
1.14Q20.76 0.49 down from 2000660%$3,400
29International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.11Q20.71 0.06 up from 20001512%$3,200
1.09Q20.86 0.10 down from 20001963%$2,995
31Probabilistic Engineering MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.08Q20.66 0.20 up from 20001083%$3,370
32Journal of Behavioral Decision MakingWiley · United Kingdom
1.04Q21.01 0.33 down from 2000966%$3,700
33Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States
1.03Q20.56 0.27 down from 2000690%—
34EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.02Q20.62 0.12 down from 20001199%$3,650
35Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.02Q20.72 0.16 up from 2000846%$2,390
36Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States
1.01Q20.79 0.48 up from 2000580%$3,550
37Reliability Engineering & System SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.93Q20.71 0.09 up from 20003334%$4,830
0.92Q20.50 0.09 up from 2000676%—
39MetrologiaIOP Publishing
0.91Q30.59 0.30 down from 200042431%$3,325
40Process Safety ProgressWiley · United States
0.79Q30.30 0.02 up from 20001276%$3,570
41Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
0.77Q30.44 0.08 up from 20002466%—
42System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom
0.76Q30.51 0.04 down from 20008312%$3,270
0.75Q30.43 0.05 up from 20004795%—
44ScientometricsSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Hungary
0.69Q30.70 0.11 down from 20002702%$3,190
45Science & Technology LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States
0.68Q30.29 0.12 down from 2000772%—
46ISAHP proceedingsCreative Decisions Foundation · United States
0.68Q30.15 0.12 up from 20008288%—
47SIMULATIONSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.60Q30.33 0.14 down from 20002513%$4,150
48Business Ethics A European ReviewWiley · United States
0.59Q30.27 0.14 down from 20001012%$3,800
49Research EvaluationOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.58Q30.31 0.08 up from 2000640%$3,470
0.55Q30.30 0.10 down from 20001657%$2,900

Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

29 additional Decision Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
76
Window papers (baseline)
31,696 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
Median OJR
0.915 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
Rising journals (2025)
2Comparison-group list (2)

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals727679889297102106109116123140154170174180186191191187185188191189185184
Window papers (baseline)29,91331,69633,89636,67639,51742,63646,57851,42557,51664,01969,62274,83281,05187,35094,25899,908104,312106,896109,086113,074118,509124,038128,379128,271129,103137,343
Median OJR0.830.9150.90911.0081.0111.021.281.141.301.251.071.171.101.030.9770.9830.960.850.840.90900.900.930.820.790.80070.8009
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 5.8%131 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 18.472 per 1,000100 journals
Output growthMedian: +1.8%170 journals
Open access shareMedian: 55.5%184 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $3,19077 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 26.3%170 journals
Review shareMedian: 0.0%184 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.81180 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 38.5%184 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 49.1%184 journals

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles
Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year)
Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges
Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.