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Computers in Human Behavior is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22.6), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0747-5632Verify ISSN ↗1873-7692Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,780 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 1 / 692 | 99th | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 5 / 220 | 97th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 7 / 196 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.6.
Computers in Human Behavior is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 1 of 692), Q1 in Psychology (all) (rank 5 of 220) and Q1 in Human-Computer Interaction (rank 7 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Computers in Human Behavior is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 22.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.072, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 302.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,780 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.
Computers in Human Behavior is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0747-5632 and its online ISSN is 1873-7692.
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 Social Sciences 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.
Computers in Human Behavior has an h-index of 357 and a 2-year mean of 12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Computers in Human Behavior published 272 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 651. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (24.5%), United States (20.8%) and Germany (6.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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