Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Decision Sciences journal rankings 2021
188 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Decision Sciences has 188 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.93, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.42. The top three are Decision Making Applications in Management and Engineering, International Journal of Project Management, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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| 5.18Q1 | 13.76 4.47 up from 2020 | 62 | 100% | — | |||
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 9.90 0.97 up from 2020 | 178 | 38% | $3,200 | ||
3Journal of Business EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.00Q1 | 5.62 0.92 up from 2020 | 869 | 52% | $3,790 | ||
4OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 6.82 0.44 up from 2020 | 433 | 35% | $4,030 | ||
5Business Ethics A European ReviewWiley · United States | 3.39Q1 | 5.03 1.08 down from 2020 | 115 | — | $3,800 | ||
6International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.15Q1 | 6.51 1.66 up from 2020 | 378 | 45% | $2,800 | ||
7Research Integrity and Peer ReviewOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 9.42 4.71 up from 2020 | 55 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
8Quantitative Science StudiesOAThe MIT Press · United States | 2.87Q1 | 6.60 3.83 up from 2020 | 94 | 100% | $800 | ||
9Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.86Q1 | 5.82 0.92 up from 2020 | 141 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
10Research Synthesis MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 10.49 4.28 up from 2020 | 170 | 69% | $3,020 | ||
11Journal of Science and Technology Policy ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 4.20 0.20 up from 2020 | 104 | 9% | — | ||
12Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.53Q1 | 5.50 2.18 up from 2020 | 317 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
13Interdisciplinary Journal of Information Knowledge and ManagementOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.44Q1 | 3.94 0.24 up from 2020 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
14Reliability Engineering & System SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 7.29 0.96 up from 2020 | 1,203 | 31% | $4,830 | ||
15Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.37Q1 | 6.39 0.86 down from 2020 | 291 | 20% | — | ||
16Journal of Systems and Information TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 3.42 0.76 up from 2020 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
17Journal of InformetricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 4.21 1.53 down from 2020 | 260 | 33% | $3,220 | ||
18Journal of Financial Services MarketingPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 5.89 4.41 up from 2020 | 40 | 41% | $3,290 | ||
19Economics Management and Financial MarketsUnited States | 2.26Q1 | 6.40 3.51 up from 2020 | 73 | 4% | — | ||
20Journal of Information Systems and Technology ManagementOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 2.19Q1 | 5.44 3.11 up from 2020 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
21Thinking & ReasoningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 5.43 0.98 up from 2020 | 67 | 21% | — | ||
22Structural SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 4.83 0.80 down from 2020 | 193 | 35% | $4,430 | ||
23Operations Research PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 3.93 0.61 down from 2020 | 108 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
24Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 4.37 0.99 up from 2020 | 162 | 56% | — | ||
25Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 4.65 1.56 up from 2020 | 1,069 | 43% | $3,090 | ||
26Journal of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 4.07 1.03 up from 2020 | 340 | 41% | $3,310 | ||
27Journal of Risk and UncertaintySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 4.72 2.25 up from 2020 | 69 | 72% | $3,090 | ||
28Geopolitics History and International RelationsOAUnited States | 1.86Q1 | 4.72 2.92 up from 2020 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
29Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 4.62 0.78 up from 2020 | 484 | 24% | — | ||
30International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 3.85 1.13 up from 2020 | 218 | 28% | — | ||
31SystemsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.74Q1 | 4.76 1.10 up from 2020 | 152 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
32Research EvaluationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 3.61 0.73 up from 2020 | 122 | 57% | $3,470 | ||
33International Journal of TestingTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q1 | 4.50 2.50 up from 2020 | 37 | 13% | — | ||
34ScientometricsSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Hungary | 1.68Q1 | 4.17 0.52 up from 2020 | 1,087 | 50% | $3,190 | ||
35Granular ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.67Q1 | 4.46 0.67 up from 2020 | 169 | 23% | $2,390 | ||
36Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.64Q1 | 3.09 0.56 up from 2020 | 133 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
37PublicationsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.58Q1 | 3.32 1.09 up from 2020 | 160 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
38International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.52Q1 | 4.22 1.71 up from 2020 | 197 | 12% | — | ||
39British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 3.30 0.22 up from 2020 | 91 | 31% | $3,400 | ||
40Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.43 0.16 up from 2020 | 73 | 17% | — | ||
41Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 3.59 1.91 up from 2020 | 98 | 32% | — | ||
42Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.44Q1 | 3.08 0.12 down from 2020 | 152 | 43% | $2,390 | ||
43Behavioural Public PolicyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 2.39 0.36 down from 2020 | 163 | 78% | $3,550 | ||
44Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.28 0.60 up from 2020 | 536 | 32% | — | ||
45Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.43Q1 | 2.66 0.42 down from 2020 | 336 | 28% | — | ||
46Informing Science The International Journal of an Emerging TransdisciplineOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.22 0.25 up from 2020 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
47Practice and Experience in Advanced Research ComputingPublisher not listed | 1.42Q1 | 0.98no 2020 value | 92 | 80% | — | — | |
48Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 2.96 1.03 up from 2020 | 65 | 36% | $3,190 | ||
49Learned PublishingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 3.15 0.69 up from 2020 | 194 | 40% | $2,080 | ||
50Journal of Financial Management of Property and ConstructionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 2.49 0.60 up from 2020 | 70 | 19% | — |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, compared.
- Management Science and Operations Research107
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty42
- Information Systems and Management33
- General Decision Sciences6
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
56 additional Decision Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 188
- Window papers (baseline)
- 124,038 +13.7% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.93 +9.7% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2Comparison-group list (2)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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 |
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| 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.