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Diamond open access journals in Decision Sciences

67 peer-reviewed journals in Decision Sciences are free to publish in: no article processing charge and no other author fees, according to the DOAJ. All of them are indexed in Scopus and ranked below by their SCImago quartile and SJR score. Data snapshot: August 2026.

67journals with no APC
11ranked Q1 (top 25%)
17ranked Q2
39ranked Q3 or Q4
58more journals charge an APC
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All 67 free-to-publish journals in Decision Sciences

Sorted by best SCImago quartile, then SJR. Click a column header to sort by it; click a second column to add a tiebreak (sort levels combine in the order you pick them). Click a column again to reverse it, a third time to remove it. The search box narrows the list. Publication time is the journal's own DOAJ figure for the average number of weeks from submission to publication.

#JournalQuartileSJRH-indexPublisherCountryTime to publish
1 Journal of Statistical Software
1548-7660		 Q1 3.677 199 Foundation for Open Access Statistics United States 53 wk
2 Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization
2777-5860		 Q1 1.466 6 Université de Montpellier France 25 wk
3 Methoden, Daten, Analysen
2190-4936		 Q1 1.274 11 GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim Germany 40 wk
4 International Journal of Innovation Studies
2589-2975		 Q1 1.162 30 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 19 wk
5 Data Science and Management
2666-7649		 Q1 1.134 27 KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. China 12 wk
6 Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
2693-9169		 Q1 1.012 44 Taylor & Francis Group United States 12 wk
7 Stochastic Systems
1946-5238		 Q1 0.946 11 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) United States 60 wk
8 Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications
2631-3871		 Q1 0.792 20 Emerald Publishing United Kingdom 10 wk
9 Statistical Theory and Related Fields
2475-4277		 Q1 0.785 10 Taylor & Francis Group United Kingdom 14 wk
10 Journal of Management Science and Engineering
2589-5532		 Q1 0.773 29 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 21 wk
11 International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
2690-6104		 Q1 0.735 12 Emerald Publishing United Kingdom 22 wk
12 Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management
2042-6755		 Q2 0.672 42 Emerald Publishing United Kingdom 46 wk
13 International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
2683-345X		 Q2 0.665 27 University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences Serbia 26 wk
14 International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management
2182-7788		 Q2 0.61 30 UMinho Editora Portugal 12 wk
15 Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications
2351-6054		 Q2 0.598 9 VTeX Lithuania 10 wk
16 Journal of International Logistics and Trade
2508-7592		 Q2 0.511 12 Emerald Publishing United Kingdom 24 wk
17 International Journal of Crowd Science
2398-7294		 Q2 0.483 20 Tsinghua University Press China 12 wk
18 Australasian Journal of Information Systems
1326-2238		 Q2 0.468 37 Australasian Association for Information Systems Australia 20 wk
19 International Journal of Production Management and Engineering
2340-4876		 Q2 0.406 12 Universitat Politècnica de València Spain 20 wk
20 INFORMS Transactions on Education
1532-0545		 Q2 0.402 10 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) United States 52 wk
21 Journal of Economics and Management
2719-9975		 Q2 0.4 7 Sciendo Poland 28 wk
22 Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Business Intelligence
2443-2555		 Q2 0.383 10 Universitas Airlangga Indonesia 16 wk
23 Law, Technology and Humans
2652-4074		 Q2 0.359 11 Queensland University of Technology Australia 9 wk
24 Foresight and STI Governance
2500-2597		 Q2 0.304 31 National Research University Higher School of Economics Russian Federation 25 wk
25 Big Data and Computing Visions
2821-014X		 Q2 0.303 9 REA Press Iran, Islamic Republic of 10 wk
26 Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering
2676-6167		 Q2 0.302 13 Ayandegan Institute of Higher Education, Iran Iran, Islamic Republic of 12 wk
27 JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization
2549-9904		 Q2 0.279 24 Society of Visual Informatics Indonesia 16 wk
28 Sustainable Engineering and Innovation
2712-0562		 Q2 0.24 8 Research and Development Academy Bosnia and Herzegovina 12 wk
29 Logistics Research
1865-0368		 Q3 0.311 31 Emerald Publishing United Kingdom 15 wk
30 Vikalpa
2395-3799		 Q3 0.297 39 SAGE Publishing India 10 wk
31 Fuzzy Information and Engineering
1616-8666		 Q3 0.285 29 Tsinghua University Press China 40 wk
32 Journal of Applied Structural Equation Modeling
2590-4221		 Q3 0.285 16 Sarawak Research Society (SRS) Malaysia 12 wk
33 Croatian Operational Research Review
1848-9931		 Q3 0.271 12 Croatian Operational Research Society Croatia 22 wk
34 RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea
1982-7849		 Q3 0.266 13 Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD) Brazil 20 wk
35 Austrian Journal of Statistics
1026-597X		 Q3 0.265 17 Austrian Statistical Society Austria 24 wk
36 Production
1980-5411		 Q3 0.264 28 Associação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção (ABEPRO) Brazil 21 wk
37 Operations Research and Decisions
2391-6060		 Q3 0.261 9 Wrocław University of Science and Technology Poland 37 wk
38 Sinergie
2785-549X		 Q3 0.259 13 Fondazione CUEIM Italy 30 wk
39 Journal of Intercollegiate Sport
1941-417X		 Q3 0.258 6 University of Kansas Libraries United States 18 wk
40 Journal of Information Technology Management
2423-5059		 Q3 0.256 22 University of Tehran Iran, Islamic Republic of 7 wk
41 Decision Science Letters
1929-5812		 Q3 0.255 35 Growing Science Canada 20 wk
42 Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics
2399-6447		 Q3 0.254 9 Emerald Publishing United Kingdom 12 wk
43 Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
2287-4577		 Q3 0.245 13 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information Korea, Republic of 12 wk
44 International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering
2717-2937		 Q3 0.243 6 Ayandegan Institute of Higher Education, Iran, Islamic Republic of 9 wk
45 Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
2001-015X		 Q3 0.242 18 Halmstad University Sweden 8 wk
46 Notes on IFS
2367-8283		 Q3 0.219 7 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Marin Drinov" Publishing House Bulgaria 15 wk
47 International Journal on Food System Dynamics
1869-6945		 Q3 0.215 23 CentMa Germany 12 wk
48 ECTI Transactions on Computer and Information Technology
2286-9131		 Q3 0.213 11 Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Communications and Information Technology Association Thailand 15 wk
49 Transactions on Fuzzy Sets and Systems
2821-0131		 Q3 0.203 5 Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas Branch Iran, Islamic Republic of 20 wk
50 Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR)
2210-8505		 Q3 0.201 6 Society for Risk Analysis - China China 12 wk

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Where these journals come from

Top countries of publication

  1. Iran, Islamic Republic of 9
  2. United Kingdom 7
  3. China 6
  4. United States 6
  5. Poland 3

Top publishers

  1. Emerald Publishing 6
  2. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2
  3. KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2
  4. Tsinghua University Press 2
  5. Taylor & Francis Group 2

Main manuscript languages

  1. English 64
  2. Spanish 2
  3. Persian 1

About this list

Diamond open access (also called Platinum) means the journal is free to read and free to publish in. The journals above are those the DOAJ records with "APC: no" and "other fees: no" and that SCImago lists under the subject area Decision Sciences (a journal can belong to several areas). Quartiles come from SCImago's SJR ranking for the latest edition: Q1 is the top 25% of journals in a category, Q4 the bottom 25%. Journals that are in the DOAJ but not in Scopus have no quartile and are not counted here; the finder can show them too.

Before submitting, always confirm the journal on its own website and in the DOAJ, verify Scopus indexing by ISSN with the Scopus check rather than trusting claims on the journal's site, and be wary of look-alike titles.

Other subject areas

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