Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers

ISSN 0256-0909 · SAGE Publishing · India · active 1976–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q3
Cites per paper (2y)
1.6
SJR
0.297
h-index
54

“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.

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Responding time

Submission to publication
~10 wk
DOAJ self-reported

Turnaround figures are indicative, not a guarantee: DOAJ values are self-reported by the journal (average weeks, submission to publication); library estimates are medians of the received/accepted dates printed in papers we hold. Editorial times vary by article type and season — confirm on the journal’s own site.

Indexing & access

DOAJScopusPubMed

Access status: gold. 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.

Free to publish — DOAJ lists no article processing charge (APC).

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Scope

indianeconomicsocialdevelopmenteconomicseconometricsglobalcross-culturalmanagementanthropologycorporatefinance

Frequently asked

Is Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers. 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 DOAJ, Scopus, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers appears in: DOAJ, Scopus, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers?

Papers in Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers are cited about 1.6 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 54. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

Scimago places Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers in Q3 for its subject category. Quartiles split the journals in a field into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers is cited about 1.6 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 54. A journal is ranked per subject category, so one spanning several fields can sit in different quartiles depending on the category.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers. The open equivalent is its Scimago quartile, Q3, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers open access?

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

Is Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers free to publish in?

Free to publish — DOAJ lists no article processing charge (APC). So there is no fee for authors to publish in Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers. Fee policies change — confirm on the journal's own site before relying on it.

How long does Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers take to publish a paper?

Submission to publication for Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers takes about ~10 wk — DOAJ self-reported. Treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee: editorial times vary by article type, reviewer availability and season, and a self-reported figure is the journal's own. We do not hold a peer-review acceptance rate for Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers.

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