Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Field ranking · 2015
Decision Sciences journal rankings 2015
180 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Decision Sciences has 180 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.98, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.66. The top three are Omega, International Journal of Project Management, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.46Q1 | 5.85 0.20 down from 2014 | 265 | 23% | $4,030 | ||
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.55Q1 | 4.63 0.11 up from 2014 | 335 | 26% | $3,200 | ||
3Journal of Business EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.13Q1 | 2.62 0.21 down from 2014 | 1,244 | 24% | $3,790 | ||
4British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 5.07 1.72 up from 2014 | 74 | 26% | $3,400 | ||
5Reliability Engineering & System SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 3.63 0.38 up from 2014 | 622 | 25% | $4,830 | ||
6ACM Transactions on Economics and ComputationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.53Q1 | 3.08 0.57 down from 2014 | 38 | 13% | — | ||
7Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.38Q1 | 2.86 0.09 down from 2014 | 344 | 16% | — | ||
8Journal of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 3.29Q1 | 3.21 0.30 up from 2014 | 315 | 30% | $3,310 | ||
9Structural SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 3.25 0.71 up from 2014 | 152 | 29% | $4,430 | ||
10International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 2.28 0.51 up from 2014 | 217 | 28% | $2,800 | ||
11Theoretical EconomicsOAEconometric Society · United States | 3.00Q1 | 2.91 0.81 up from 2014 | 77 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
12Interdisciplinary Journal of Information Knowledge and ManagementOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.88Q1 | 1.33 1.33 down from 2014 | 35 | 93% | — | ||
13Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 1.66 1.39 down from 2014 | 94 | 17% | — | ||
14EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 2.32 0.43 down from 2014 | 110 | 42% | $3,650 | ||
15Business Ethics A European ReviewWiley · United States | 2.84Q1 | 1.92 0.26 down from 2014 | 108 | 19% | $3,800 | ||
16Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.69Q1 | 2.44 0.56 down from 2014 | 155 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
17Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 3.60 1.48 up from 2014 | 86 | 16% | $3,040 | ||
18ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.49Q1 | 2.43 0.46 up from 2014 | 68 | 33% | — | ||
19Research EvaluationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.18 0.35 up from 2014 | 108 | 43% | $3,470 | ||
20System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.12 0.75 down from 2014 | 55 | 24% | $3,270 | ||
21Journal of Behavioral Decision MakingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 2.11 1.12 down from 2014 | 102 | 25% | $3,700 | ||
22Journal of Systems and Information TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 2.05 0.15 up from 2014 | 62 | 22% | — | ||
23EURO Journal on Decision ProcessesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.27Q1 | 2.42 0.06 up from 2014 | 33 | 29% | $1,400 | ||
24Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 1.18 0.58 down from 2014 | 110 | 26% | — | ||
25Journal of InformetricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 3.41 0.70 up from 2014 | 259 | 41% | $3,220 | ||
26Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 1.36 0.28 down from 2014 | 82 | 16% | $3,240 | ||
27Research Synthesis MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 3.68 1.17 down from 2014 | 92 | 35% | $3,020 | ||
28Learned PublishingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 1.30 0.26 up from 2014 | 131 | 66% | $2,080 | ||
29INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 2.10Q1 | 1.79 0.27 down from 2014 | 123 | 19% | — | ||
30Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 2.16 0.48 up from 2014 | 309 | 32% | — | ||
31Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.05Q1 | 1.64 0.62 down from 2014 | 168 | 24% | — | ||
32Journal of Clinical EpidemiologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.02Q1 | 4.42 0.84 up from 2014 | 666 | 48% | $4,210 | ||
33Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 1.55 0.16 up from 2014 | 159 | 34% | $3,190 | ||
34Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.00Q1 | 1.54 0.35 down from 2014 | 73 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
35ScientometricsSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Hungary | 1.95Q1 | 2.53 0.22 up from 2014 | 890 | 23% | $3,190 | ||
36Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 1.87 0.06 down from 2014 | 360 | 23% | $3,270 | ||
37Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 1.76 0.29 up from 2014 | 701 | 19% | $3,090 | ||
38Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.85Q1 | 1.51 0.70 down from 2014 | 60 | 3% | $2,500 | ||
39Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 1.61 0.31 up from 2014 | 515 | 17% | — | ||
40Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.80Q1 | 1.88 0.02 up from 2014 | 162 | 98% | $3,650 | ||
41Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.76Q1 | 1.27 0.31 down from 2014 | 375 | 30% | $2,720 | ||
42Judgment and Decision MakingOACambridge University Press · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.71 0.52 up from 2014 | 184 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
43Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 1.39 0.12 up from 2014 | 139 | 18% | $2,390 | ||
44American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.67Q1 | 1.50 0.43 down from 2014 | 128 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
45Computing in Science & EngineeringAIP Publishing | 1.66Q1 | 1.81 0.65 up from 2014 | 292 | 19% | $2,995 | ||
46Thinking & ReasoningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 2.63 0.29 up from 2014 | 88 | 35% | — | ||
47International Journal of Managing Information TechnologyOAPublisher not listed | 1.63Q2 | 1.53 0.45 up from 2014 | 36 | 67% | — | ||
48Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.62Q2 | 1.64 0.40 up from 2014 | 238 | 12% | — | ||
49SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty QuantificationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.60Q2 | 2.00 0.96 up from 2014 | 59 | 48% | — | ||
50Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 1.28 0.16 up from 2014 | 72 | 0% | $2,900 |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, compared.
- Management Science and Operations Research109
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty35
- Information Systems and Management32
- General Decision Sciences4
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
48 additional Decision Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 180
- Window papers (baseline)
- 99,908 +23.3% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.983 -10.3% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2Comparison-group list (2)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.