Decision Support Systems
Last updated ISSN 0167-9236
Decision Support Systems is published by Elsevier BV in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,940.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Decision Support Systems concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
- Business Process Modeling and Analysis
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Auction Theory and Applications
- Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0167-9236, 1873-5797 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,940 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,977 |
| Publishing since | 1985 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/decision-support-systems |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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