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Advances in Information Security is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4). Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1568-2633Verify ISSN ↗2512-2193Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 231 / 568 | 59th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 232 / 519 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 2005–2011), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Advances in Information Security is Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 231 of 568) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 232 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Information Security is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2, 59th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Advances in Information Security is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1568-2633 and its online ISSN is 2512-2193.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Information Security has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 1.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #268 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Advances in Information Security published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 100. 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.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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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