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Communications of the Association for Information Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. Published by Association for Information Systems (AIS).
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ISSN 1529-3181Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association for Information Systems (AIS)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems | 179 / 519 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 2006), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems is Q2 in Information Systems (rank 179 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems 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 5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.816, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 70.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems is published by Association for Information Systems (AIS). Its ISSN is 1529-3181.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems has an h-index of 109 and a 2-year mean of 1.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #215 of 397 Scopus journals in Information Systems.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems published 118 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 86 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (33.3%), India (10.9%) and Germany (10.5%).
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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