Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Field ranking · 2005
Decision Sciences journal rankings 2005
97 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Decision Sciences has 97 ranked journals in 2005. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.02 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2004. A journal needs OJR 1.78 to reach Q1. The top three are ACM SIGecom Exchanges, INFORMS journal on computing, and Group Decision and Negotiation.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 score is computed on.
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.
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.
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.
Subfields in Decision Sciences (4)
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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. | 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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1ACM SIGecom ExchangesAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.91Q1 | 2.87 0.55 up from 2004 | 44 | 13% | — | ||
2INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 4.37Q1 | 3.63 0.12 up from 2004 | 104 | 8% | — | ||
3Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.38Q1 | 3.00 0.87 up from 2004 | 86 | 6% | $2,390 | ||
4ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.38Q1 | 2.86 0.98 up from 2004 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
5International Journal of Mobile CommunicationsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 4.70 1.58 up from 2004 | 54 | 9% | — | ||
6Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.01Q1 | 2.58 0.91 up from 2004 | 277 | 19% | — | ||
7Journal of Risk and UncertaintySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.94Q1 | 2.79 1.03 up from 2004 | 81 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
8EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 1.59 0.63 up from 2004 | 113 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
9Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.73Q1 | 1.86 0.09 up from 2004 | 145 | 9% | — | ||
10International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 2.11 0.54 up from 2004 | 265 | 9% | $3,200 | ||
11OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 1.44 0.18 up from 2004 | 211 | 7% | $4,030 | ||
12Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 2.63 0.33 up from 2004 | 60 | 4% | $3,040 | ||
13Journal of Electronic Commerce in OrganizationsOAIGI Global · United States | 2.51Q1 | 1.02 0.35 down from 2004 | 43 | 4% | — | ||
14Evaluation Journal of AustralasiaSAGE Publishing · Australia | 2.46Q1 | 3.72 2.56 up from 2004 | 56 | 3% | $3,400 | ||
15Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.09Q1 | 1.16 0.53 up from 2004 | 96 | 17% | — | ||
16Learned PublishingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 0.87 0.19 up from 2004 | 145 | 44% | $2,080 | ||
17Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.95Q1 | 1.23no change | 328 | 10% | $2,720 | ||
18International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 1.47 0.68 up from 2004 | 246 | 16% | $2,800 | ||
19Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 1.11 0.64 down from 2004 | 94 | 17% | $3,190 | ||
20ScientometricsSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Hungary | 1.87Q1 | 1.84 0.43 up from 2004 | 276 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
21Structural SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 1.28 0.30 down from 2004 | 81 | 8% | $4,430 | ||
22Journal of Business EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 1.44 0.29 up from 2004 | 638 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
23Journal of Clinical EpidemiologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.83Q1 | 3.00 0.12 down from 2004 | 560 | 15% | $4,210 | ||
24Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 1.41 0.57 up from 2004 | 318 | 10% | $3,090 | ||
25Journal of Quality TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.78Q1 | 1.56 0.11 up from 2004 | 161 | 0% | — | ||
26Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.72Q2 | 1.17 0.38 down from 2004 | 77 | 8% | — | ||
27Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q2 | 1.42 0.05 down from 2004 | 228 | 6% | $3,270 | ||
28Reliability Engineering & System SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.28 0.07 down from 2004 | 488 | 9% | $4,830 | ||
29Research EvaluationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.09 0.27 up from 2004 | 51 | 7% | $3,470 | ||
30Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 0.92 0.03 down from 2004 | 221 | 21% | — | ||
31Thinking & ReasoningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 1.13 0.28 down from 2004 | 46 | 13% | — | ||
32Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.54Q2 | 1.29 0.64 up from 2004 | 80 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
33Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.50Q2 | 0.98 0.11 down from 2004 | 99 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
34Journal of Behavioral Decision MakingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 1.52 0.26 up from 2004 | 73 | 21% | $3,700 | ||
35Operations Research LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q2 | 0.91 0.14 up from 2004 | 321 | 10% | $2,960 | ||
36International Journal of Electronic BusinessInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 0.61 0.38 up from 2004 | 69 | 3% | — | ||
37Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.01 0.16 up from 2004 | 651 | 11% | — | ||
38Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 1.00 0.60 up from 2004 | 53 | 3% | $2,900 | ||
39Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.28Q2 | 0.72 0.14 down from 2004 | 52 | 5% | — | ||
40Journal of Financial Services MarketingPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 0.60 0.11 down from 2004 | 91 | 15% | $3,290 | ||
41Decision AnalysisInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.27Q2 | 0.77 0.06 down from 2004 | 31 | 12% | — | ||
42Probabilistic Engineering MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 1.07 0.11 down from 2004 | 125 | 4% | $3,370 | ||
43Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 0.88 0.34 up from 2004 | 77 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
44Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 1.23Q2 | 0.85 0.01 down from 2004 | 65 | 14% | $3,550 | ||
45Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.18Q2 | 1.18 0.02 up from 2004 | 219 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
46System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 0.94 0.39 down from 2004 | 67 | 8% | $3,270 | ||
47Applied Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.15Q2 | 1.05 0.19 up from 2004 | 88 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
48British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.30 0.35 up from 2004 | 70 | 3% | $3,400 | ||
49MetrologiaIOP Publishing | 1.02Q2 | 1.08 0.29 up from 2004 | 573 | 28% | $3,325 | ||
50New Directions for EvaluationWiley · United States | 1.00Q3 | 0.63 0.03 down from 2004 | 93 | 11% | $3,140 |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, compared.
- Management Science and Operations Research60
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty21
- Information Systems and Management13
- General Decision Sciences3
Journals
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
30 additional Decision Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 97
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,636 +25.8% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 1.02 +11.8% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2Comparison-group list (2)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 72 | 76 | 79 | 88 | 92 | 97 | 102 | 106 | 109 | 116 | 123 | 140 | 154 | 170 | 174 | 180 | 186 | 191 | 191 | 187 | 185 | 188 | 191 | 189 | 185 | 184 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 29,913 | 31,696 | 33,896 | 36,676 | 39,517 | 42,636 | 46,578 | 51,425 | 57,516 | 64,019 | 69,622 | 74,832 | 81,051 | 87,350 | 94,258 | 99,908 | 104,312 | 106,896 | 109,086 | 113,074 | 118,509 | 124,038 | 128,379 | 128,271 | 129,103 | 137,343 | |
| Median OJR | 0.83 | 0.915 | 0.9091 | 1.008 | 1.011 | 1.02 | 1.28 | 1.14 | 1.30 | 1.25 | 1.07 | 1.17 | 1.10 | 1.03 | 0.977 | 0.983 | 0.96 | 0.85 | 0.84 | 0.9090 | 0.90 | 0.93 | 0.82 | 0.79 | 0.8007 | 0.8009 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 5.8% | 131 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 18.472 per 1,000 | 100 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +1.8% | 170 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 55.5% | 184 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,190 | 77 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 26.3% | 170 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 184 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.81 | 180 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 38.5% | 184 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 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.