Soft Systems Methodology

Soft Systems Methodology is a systemic approach to organizational problem solving that belongs to the class of interpretive systems methodologies and is distinguished by its focus on modeling purposeful human activity systems to explore complex, ill-defined real-world problems through iterative comparison of differing stakeholder perspectives.

485

Publications

26K

Citations

979

Authors

452

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

95

Variants

Ssm

Authors

979

  1. PC
    Peter Checkland

    Lancaster University, United Kingdom

    15 publications · 6K citations

    15

    h-index

  2. AP
    Alberto Paucar‐Caceres

    Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

    11 publications · 372 citations

    11

    h-index

  3. JM
    John Mingers

    University of Kent, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 947 citations

    9

    h-index

  4. DB
    David Bustard

    University of Ulster, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 136 citations

    8

    h-index

  5. DH
    Derek H.T. Walker

    RMIT University, Australia

    7 publications · 218 citations

    7

    h-index

1–5 of 979

Venues

  1. Journal of the Operational Research Society

    OR · 27 publications · 4.8K citations

    21

    h-index

  2. Systems Research and Behavioral Science

    40 publications · 2.4K citations

    19

    h-index

  3. Systemic Practice and Action Research

    16 publications · 464 citations

    14

    h-index

  4. European Journal of Information Systems

    EJIS · 8 publications · 1.3K citations

    8

    h-index

  5. European Journal of Operational Research

    8 publications · 1.2K citations

    8

    h-index

1–5