Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Decision Sciences journal rankings 2018
191 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Decision Sciences has 191 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are Granular Computing, International Journal of Project Management, and Omega.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Granular ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 5.90Q1 | 10.48 9.74 down from 2017 | 65 | 16% | $2,390 | ||
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.15Q1 | 6.53 0.71 up from 2017 | 366 | 44% | $3,200 | ||
3OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.99Q1 | 4.90 0.39 down from 2017 | 391 | 25% | $4,030 | ||
4Operations Research PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.92Q1 | 7.03 0.20 down from 2017 | 45 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
5Journal of Business EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.87Q1 | 2.58 0.13 up from 2017 | 1,196 | 35% | $3,790 | ||
6Business Ethics A European ReviewWiley · United States | 3.61Q1 | 4.63 0.80 up from 2017 | 84 | 30% | $3,800 | ||
7International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.23Q1 | 4.39 1.33 up from 2017 | 257 | 48% | $2,800 | ||
8Reliability Engineering & System SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 5.03 0.12 up from 2017 | 829 | 30% | $4,830 | ||
9Journal of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 2.96Q1 | 2.85 1.18 down from 2017 | 575 | 38% | $3,310 | ||
10Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.95Q1 | 3.61 1.28 up from 2017 | 108 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
11Journal of Science and Technology Policy ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 2.78 0.59 up from 2017 | 64 | 5% | — | ||
12Research EvaluationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 2.91 0.56 down from 2017 | 119 | 39% | $3,470 | ||
13Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.75Q1 | 3.72 0.87 up from 2017 | 234 | 19% | — | ||
14Research Integrity and Peer ReviewOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 4.91 1.22 down from 2017 | 33 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
15Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.38Q1 | 2.83 0.05 down from 2017 | 354 | 29% | — | ||
16International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.19Q1 | 2.73 0.66 up from 2017 | 164 | 6% | — | ||
17Journal of Systems and Information TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 1.63 0.22 down from 2017 | 52 | 23% | — | ||
18Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.54 0.48 up from 2017 | 154 | 35% | — | ||
19Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.58 0.35 up from 2017 | 198 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
20Theoretical EconomicsOAEconometric Society · United States | 2.11Q1 | 2.70 0.24 up from 2017 | 106 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
21Judgment and Decision MakingOACambridge University Press · United States | 2.09Q1 | 3.10 0.37 down from 2017 | 170 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
22Structural SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.61 0.39 down from 2017 | 184 | 40% | $4,430 | ||
23Thinking & ReasoningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 2.93 0.13 up from 2017 | 57 | 35% | — | ||
24Journal of InformetricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 4.30 0.69 up from 2017 | 291 | 52% | $3,220 | ||
25INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 1.93Q1 | 2.20 0.03 up from 2017 | 169 | 22% | — | ||
26Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 1.88 0.24 up from 2017 | 90 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
27EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.90 0.65 up from 2017 | 106 | 37% | $3,650 | ||
28ScientometricsSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Hungary | 1.85Q1 | 3.09 0.23 up from 2017 | 1,040 | 35% | $3,190 | ||
29International Journal for Uncertainty QuantificationBegell House · United States | 1.82Q1 | 3.66 2.50 up from 2017 | 85 | 31% | — | ||
30Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 1.84 0.59 down from 2017 | 116 | 39% | $2,390 | ||
31Journal of Scholarly PublishingUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 1.77Q1 | 1.71 1.04 up from 2017 | 63 | 5% | — | ||
32Research Synthesis MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 4.68 1.55 up from 2017 | 125 | 54% | $3,020 | ||
33SystemsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.74Q1 | 2.53 0.65 up from 2017 | 109 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
34Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 2.43 0.47 up from 2017 | 951 | 30% | $3,090 | ||
35InformaticaIOS Press · Lithuania | 1.62Q1 | 2.36 0.87 up from 2017 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
36International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.85 0.79 up from 2017 | 127 | 28% | — | ||
37Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.19 0.40 up from 2017 | 198 | 54% | — | ||
38PublicationsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.62Q1 | 2.04 0.20 up from 2017 | 75 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
39Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.93 0.31 up from 2017 | 415 | 26% | — | ||
40Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.61Q1 | 1.62 0.68 down from 2017 | 101 | 8% | $2,500 | ||
41DecisionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.54Q1 | 1.95 0.53 down from 2017 | 60 | 40% | — | ||
42Journal of Clinical EpidemiologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.53Q1 | 4.05 0.29 up from 2017 | 772 | 54% | $4,210 | ||
43IMA Journal of Management MathematicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.03 0.41 up from 2017 | 71 | 39% | $3,718 | ||
44Learned PublishingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.20 0.58 up from 2017 | 150 | 80% | $2,080 | ||
45International Journal of Mobile CommunicationsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 0.99 0.55 down from 2017 | 154 | 4% | — | ||
46British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 2.18 0.32 down from 2017 | 70 | 22% | $3,400 | ||
47Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 2.38 0.61 up from 2017 | 89 | 30% | — | ||
48Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.44Q1 | 2.09 0.34 up from 2017 | 167 | 60% | $3,650 | ||
49Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 1.22 0.20 down from 2017 | 91 | 17% | $3,240 | ||
50Journal of Information Systems and Technology ManagementOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 1.44Q2 | 1.68 0.83 up from 2017 | 82 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, compared.
- Management Science and Operations Research110
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty41
- Information Systems and Management35
- General Decision Sciences5
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
47 additional Decision Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 191
- Window papers (baseline)
- 109,086 +9.2% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.84 -14.1% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2Comparison-group list (2)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.