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Cybersecurity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SpringerOpen.
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ISSN 2096-4862Verify ISSN ↗2523-3246Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SpringerOpen
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 96 / 568 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Software | 91 / 503 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 99 / 519 | 81st | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 117 / 570 | 79th | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Cybersecurity is Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 96 of 568), Q1 in Software (rank 91 of 503) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 99 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cybersecurity 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.056, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
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Cybersecurity is published by SpringerOpen. Its print ISSN is 2096-4862 and its online ISSN is 2523-3246.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cybersecurity has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 3.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Cybersecurity published 154 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (75.4%), Australia (4.4%) and United States (2.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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 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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