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Acta Informatica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0001-5903Verify ISSN ↗1432-0525Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 367 / 568 | 35th | Q3 |
| Information Systems | 347 / 519 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Software | 386 / 503 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Acta Informatica is Q3 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 367 of 568), Q3 in Information Systems (rank 347 of 519) and Q4 in Software (rank 386 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Informatica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.319, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Informatica is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0001-5903 and its online ISSN is 1432-0525.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Informatica has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #298 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Acta Informatica published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 44. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (15.2%), Germany (14.1%) and India (11.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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