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Evolutionary Computation

MIT PRESS · United States · Est. 1974

ISSN1530-9304

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — 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 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.629

H-Indexi

122

SNIPi

1.437

Total Worksi

1,049

Total Citationsi

90,644

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.85

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science, Theory & Methods; Computational Mathematics.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1974

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,049

Publisher OrgThe MIT Press

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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

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

MIT PRESS

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1530-9304

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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

836

2019

596

2020

213

2021

2022

312

2023

104

2024

2025

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.

Computational MathematicsQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science, Theory & Methods

Scopus Categories

Computational Mathematics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms ResearchEvolutionary Algorithms and ApplicationsAdvanced Multi-Objective Optimization AlgorithmsEvolution and Genetic DynamicsDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesReinforcement Learning in RoboticsEvolutionary Game Theory and CooperationNeural Networks and ApplicationsLegal case studies and regulationsGeographies of human-animal interactions

Frequently asked questions about Evolutionary Computation

Is Evolutionary Computation a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Evolutionary Computation: 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 Evolutionary Computation?

Evolutionary Computation 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 1.85.

Is Evolutionary Computation indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Evolutionary Computation is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Evolutionary Computation?