Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Field ranking · 2009
Decision Sciences journal rankings 2009
116 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Decision Sciences has 116 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2008 to 1.25, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.79. The top three are Omega, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, and Journal of Informetrics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.90Q1 | 3.74 0.43 up from 2008 | 204 | 9% | $4,030 | ||
2Journal of Electronic Commerce in OrganizationsOAIGI Global · United States | 3.95Q1 | 1.68 0.96 down from 2008 | 54 | 4% | — | ||
3Journal of InformetricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.93Q1 | 4.59 0.48 up from 2008 | 72 | 20% | $3,220 | ||
4International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 2.66 0.52 down from 2008 | 276 | 13% | $3,200 | ||
5Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.61Q1 | 2.76 0.13 up from 2008 | 320 | 11% | — | ||
6ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.37Q1 | 2.10 0.67 down from 2008 | 56 | 11% | — | ||
7Business Ethics A European ReviewWiley · United States | 3.37Q1 | 1.47 0.12 up from 2008 | 100 | 14% | $3,800 | ||
8International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.15Q1 | 2.28 0.33 up from 2008 | 167 | 12% | $2,800 | ||
9Reliability Engineering & System SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 2.25 0.12 up from 2008 | 536 | 11% | $4,830 | ||
10Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.83Q1 | 2.26 0.34 up from 2008 | 130 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
11Journal of Business EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 1.81 0.02 down from 2008 | 1,048 | 13% | $3,790 | ||
12Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.78Q1 | 2.82 1.72 up from 2008 | 50 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
13INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 2.64Q1 | 2.00 0.15 up from 2008 | 196 | 18% | — | ||
14Structural SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 1.79 0.46 up from 2008 | 103 | 10% | $4,430 | ||
15Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 1.52 0.36 up from 2008 | 81 | 15% | $3,240 | ||
16Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.45Q1 | 1.78 0.17 up from 2008 | 77 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
17System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 1.86 0.06 up from 2008 | 67 | 26% | $3,270 | ||
18Interdisciplinary Journal of Information Knowledge and ManagementOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.35Q1 | 1.24 0.35 up from 2008 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
19ScientometricsSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Hungary | 2.32Q1 | 2.85 0.14 up from 2008 | 496 | 17% | $3,190 | ||
20Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.32Q1 | 1.94 0.02 up from 2008 | 162 | 22% | — | ||
21Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.18Q1 | 1.08 0.30 up from 2008 | 91 | 13% | — | ||
22Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.16Q1 | 1.35 0.60 up from 2008 | 70 | 13% | — | ||
23International Journal of Mobile CommunicationsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 1.83 0.52 down from 2008 | 132 | 0% | — | ||
24Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 1.68 0.27 down from 2008 | 45 | 12% | — | ||
25Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.06Q1 | 1.20 0.19 down from 2008 | 344 | 17% | $2,720 | ||
26Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 1.60 0.03 up from 2008 | 314 | 18% | $3,270 | ||
27Research EvaluationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 1.22 0.08 down from 2008 | 75 | 23% | $3,470 | ||
28Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 1.16 0.05 down from 2008 | 527 | 21% | $3,090 | ||
29Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 0.93 0.77 down from 2008 | 122 | 12% | $2,390 | ||
30Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.78Q2 | 1.69 0.26 up from 2008 | 60 | 9% | $3,040 | ||
31Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.73Q2 | 1.30 0.27 down from 2008 | 68 | 10% | — | ||
32Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.73Q2 | 1.12 0.14 up from 2008 | 577 | 18% | — | ||
33Journal of Clinical EpidemiologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.73Q2 | 2.95 0.11 down from 2008 | 628 | 23% | $4,210 | ||
34Journal of Quality TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q2 | 1.53 0.30 down from 2008 | 124 | 4% | — | ||
35Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q2 | 1.15 0.26 down from 2008 | 134 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
36Journal of Risk and UncertaintySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q2 | 2.05 0.64 up from 2008 | 82 | 19% | $3,090 | ||
37International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.14no 2008 value | 43 | 12% | — | — | |
38Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.59Q2 | 1.14 0.50 down from 2008 | 226 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
39Operations Research LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q2 | 1.11 0.20 up from 2008 | 304 | 16% | $2,960 | ||
40SIMULATIONSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 1.29 0.06 down from 2008 | 161 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
41Computational Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.52Q2 | 0.89 0.03 down from 2008 | 87 | 42% | $3,190 | ||
42Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 1.30 0.13 up from 2008 | 315 | 28% | — | ||
43ACM SIGecom ExchangesAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.51Q2 | 0.69 1.01 down from 2008 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
44EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 1.03 0.32 down from 2008 | 97 | 22% | $3,650 | ||
45Informing Science The International Journal of an Emerging TransdisciplineOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 1.44Q2 | 1.44 0.16 up from 2008 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
46The Journal of Internet Banking and CommerceOAOMICS Publishing Group · Canada | 1.42Q2 | 0.93 0.55 up from 2008 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
47International Journal of E-Business ResearchOAIGI Global · United States | 1.41Q2 | 1.21 0.60 up from 2008 | 69 | 4% | — | ||
48Journal of Financial Services MarketingPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 0.91 0.24 up from 2008 | 93 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
49Probabilistic Engineering MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.21no change | 147 | 7% | $3,370 | ||
50American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.36Q2 | 1.14 0.08 up from 2008 | 162 | 2% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, compared.
- Management Science and Operations Research69
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty24
- Information Systems and Management19
- General Decision Sciences4
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
55 additional Decision Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 116
- Window papers (baseline)
- 64,019 +37.4% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.25 -2.0% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2Comparison-group list (2)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.