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Applied Soft Computing

ISSN 1568-4946 · Elsevier BV · Netherlands · active 1971–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
5.5
SJR
1.456
h-index
233

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

Access status: unknown. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

metaheuristicoptimizationalgorithmsartificialintelligenceadvancedmulti-objectivecomputationalmathematicsmulti-criteriadecisionmaking

Frequently asked

Is Applied Soft Computing a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Applied Soft Computing. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Applied Soft Computing indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Applied Soft Computing appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is Applied Soft Computing's impact?

Papers in Applied Soft Computing are cited about 5.5 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 233. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Applied Soft Computing open access?

We hold no reliable open-access classification for Applied Soft Computing. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.

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