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Data Base for Advances in Information Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sheridan Press.
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ISSN 0095-0033Verify ISSN ↗1532-0936Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sheridan Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 228 / 568 | 59th | Q2 |
| Management Information Systems | 71 / 143 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Data Base for Advances in Information Systems is Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 228 of 568) and Q2 in Management Information Systems (rank 71 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
Data Base for Advances in Information Systems 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.433, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
Data Base for Advances in Information Systems is published by Sheridan Press. Its print ISSN is 0095-0033 and its online ISSN is 1532-0936.
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.
Data Base for Advances in Information Systems has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 2.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #163 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Data Base for Advances in Information Systems published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 38. 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 100 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (46.4%), Germany (20.7%) and China (3.8%).
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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