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Organization Science

INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States · Est. 1968

ISSN1526-5455

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

7.929

H-Indexi

384

SNIPi

2.51

Total Worksi

2,750

Total Citationsi

622,268

2yr Mean Citednessi

5.43

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Management; Management of Technology and Innovation; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Strategy and Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1968

FrequencyBimonthly, Sept.-Oct. 1995-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,750

Publisher OrgInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1526-5455

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

4.8k

2019

103

5.2k

2020

156

5.4k

2021

106

3.5k

2022

1.6k

2023

109

1.6k

2024

253

2025

165

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Management of Technology and InnovationQ1

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementQ1

Strategy and ManagementQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Management

Scopus Categories

Management of Technology and InnovationStrategy and ManagementOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Innovation and Knowledge ManagementManagement and Organizational StudiesCorporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness Strategy and InnovationComplex Systems and Decision MakingEntrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesExperimental Behavioral Economics StudiesJob Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorTeam Dynamics and PerformanceKnowledge Management and Sharing

Frequently asked questions about Organization Science

Is Organization Science a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Organization Science: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Organization Science?

Organization Science is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 5.43.

Is Organization Science indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Organization Science is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Organization Science?