Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers
ISSN 0256-0909 · SAGE Publishing · India · active 1976–2026
Metrics
“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
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.
Scope
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 Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers's impact?
Papers in Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers are cited about 1.3 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 54. 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 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.