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Decision Analysis

INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States · Est. 2003

ISSN1545-8504

SJR Q3✓ 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.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.372

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.807

Total Worksi

628

Total Citationsi

11,689

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Management; Decision Sciences (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2003

Annual Volume~ 26 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications628

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?

1545-8504

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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

292

2019

285

2020

251

2021

144

2022

118

2023

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.

Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Management

Scopus Categories

Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Decision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsEducational Robotics and EngineeringEconomic and Environmental ValuationMulti-Criteria Decision MakingHuman auditory perception and evaluationBayesian Modeling and Causal InferenceDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesForecasting Techniques and ApplicationsAuction Theory and ApplicationsEarthquake and Disaster Impact Studies

Frequently asked questions about Decision Analysis

Is Decision Analysis a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Decision Analysis: 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 Decision Analysis?

Decision Analysis 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 1.00.

Is Decision Analysis indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Decision Analysis is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Decision Analysis?