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Big Data and Cognitive Computing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2504-2289Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science Applications | 116 / 1022 | 88th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 60 / 519 | 88th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 78 / 570 | 86th | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 21 / 143 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.4.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing is Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 116 of 1022), Q1 in Information Systems (rank 60 of 519) and Q1 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 78 of 570), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 11.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.033, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 59.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,172 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.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2504-2289.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 5.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #136 of 818 Scopus journals in Computer Science Applications.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing published 334 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (29.4%), United States (8.3%) and Kazakhstan (5.1%).
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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