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Big Data Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 2214-5796Verify ISSN ↗2214-580XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,840 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 29 / 222 | 87th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 168 / 1022 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 87 / 519 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 31 / 143 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.3.
Big Data Research is Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 29 of 222), Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 168 of 1022) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 87 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Big Data Research 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 9.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.843, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,840 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 Research is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 2214-5796 and its online ISSN is 2214-580X.
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.
Big Data Research has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 4.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
Big Data Research published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 96. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (41.8%), Italy (16.8%) and India (10.1%).
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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