Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Field ranking · 2013
Decision Sciences journal rankings 2013
170 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Decision Sciences has 170 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2012 to 1.03, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.80. The top three are Omega, International Journal of Project Management, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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.
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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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.34Q1 | 4.63 0.70 up from 2012 | 263 | 11% | $4,030 | ||
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 3.51 0.15 down from 2012 | 280 | 21% | $3,200 | ||
3Journal of Business EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.18Q1 | 2.79 0.07 up from 2012 | 1,095 | 20% | $3,790 | ||
4Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 2.71 0.42 down from 2012 | 85 | 10% | — | ||
5Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.62Q1 | 3.01 0.16 up from 2012 | 344 | 13% | — | ||
6Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 3.47Q1 | 2.64 0.89 up from 2012 | 84 | 24% | $3,550 | ||
7Structural SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 3.07 0.45 up from 2012 | 121 | 6% | $4,430 | ||
8Reliability Engineering & System SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 3.18 0.28 up from 2012 | 495 | 11% | $4,830 | ||
9ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.12Q1 | 2.78 0.16 down from 2012 | 70 | 25% | — | ||
10Revista Eletrônica de Estratégia & NegóciosOAUniversidade do Sul de Santa Catarina · Brazil | 3.10Q1 | 0.20 2.12 down from 2012 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
11Journal of Clinical EpidemiologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.83Q1 | 4.82 0.29 down from 2012 | 596 | 42% | $4,210 | ||
12Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.81Q1 | 2.05 0.17 up from 2012 | 139 | 27% | — | ||
13Research Synthesis MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 4.18 0.58 up from 2012 | 84 | 18% | $3,020 | ||
14Journal of InformetricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 3.42 1.25 down from 2012 | 213 | 29% | $3,220 | ||
15International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 1.72 0.08 down from 2012 | 233 | 33% | $2,800 | ||
16Grey Systems Theory and ApplicationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 2.56 1.29 down from 2012 | 63 | 0% | — | ||
17International Journal of Mobile CommunicationsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 2.07 0.64 down from 2012 | 103 | 3% | — | ||
18Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.44Q1 | 1.90 0.12 up from 2012 | 116 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
19Engineering Project Organization JournalUnited States | 2.33Q1 | 2.05 0.20 up from 2012 | 41 | 59% | — | ||
20System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 2.21 0.69 down from 2012 | 60 | 12% | $3,270 | ||
21Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 1.72 0.03 up from 2012 | 342 | 21% | — | ||
22Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 1.35 0.18 down from 2012 | 80 | 15% | $3,240 | ||
23Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.15Q1 | 1.77 0.32 up from 2012 | 141 | 15% | — | ||
24Journal of Systems and Information TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 1.65 0.59 up from 2012 | 67 | 11% | — | ||
25Interdisciplinary Journal of Information Knowledge and ManagementOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.14Q1 | 1.53 0.20 up from 2012 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
26Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 1.76 0.68 up from 2012 | 119 | 22% | — | ||
27The Journal of Internet Banking and CommerceOAOMICS Publishing Group · Canada | 2.10Q1 | 1.09 0.15 down from 2012 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
28Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 1.29 0.30 down from 2012 | 154 | 19% | $3,190 | ||
29INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 2.05Q1 | 1.56 0.04 up from 2012 | 168 | 14% | — | ||
30Theoretical EconomicsOAEconometric Society · United States | 2.03Q1 | 1.89 0.08 down from 2012 | 53 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
31Business Ethics A European ReviewWiley · United States | 2.00Q1 | 1.23 0.08 down from 2012 | 92 | 16% | $3,800 | ||
32ScientometricsSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Hungary | 1.99Q1 | 2.91 0.15 up from 2012 | 755 | 21% | $3,190 | ||
33Journal of Quality TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.99Q1 | 2.37 0.22 up from 2012 | 102 | 2% | — | ||
34Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 2.14 0.92 up from 2012 | 298 | 17% | $3,270 | ||
35American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.93Q1 | 2.15 0.06 down from 2012 | 109 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
36International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.91Q1 | 2.44 0.39 down from 2012 | 166 | 9% | — | ||
37EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 1.23 0.04 up from 2012 | 106 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
38Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 1.52 0.28 up from 2012 | 136 | 17% | $2,390 | ||
39Judgment and Decision MakingOACambridge University Press · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.30 1.18 down from 2012 | 194 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
40International Journal of TestingTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.25 0.20 up from 2012 | 70 | 5% | — | ||
41Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 1.13 0.03 down from 2012 | 528 | 12% | — | ||
42Research EvaluationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 1.81 0.35 down from 2012 | 119 | 32% | $3,470 | ||
43Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 1.45 0.26 up from 2012 | 577 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
44Computing in Science & EngineeringAIP Publishing | 1.73Q2 | 1.49 0.61 down from 2012 | 332 | 37% | $2,995 | ||
45Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.70Q2 | 1.57 0.17 down from 2012 | 164 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
46Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 1.48 0.09 up from 2012 | 84 | 8% | $3,040 | ||
47Journal of Behavioral Decision MakingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 2.69 0.62 up from 2012 | 114 | 17% | $3,700 | ||
48Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.65Q2 | 1.42 0.25 up from 2012 | 354 | 24% | $2,720 | ||
49Learned PublishingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 1.13 0.10 up from 2012 | 142 | 47% | $2,080 | ||
50Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.57Q2 | 1.37 0.34 up from 2012 | 50 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, compared.
- Management Science and Operations Research102
- Information Systems and Management34
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty30
- General Decision Sciences4
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
46 additional Decision Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 170
- Window papers (baseline)
- 87,350 +25.5% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.03 -4.5% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2Comparison-group list (2)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.