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Digital Government: Research and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Association for Computing Machinery.
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ISSN 2639-0175Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 74 / 248 | 70th | Q2 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 195 / 568 | 65th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 196 / 519 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 430 / 1022 | 57th | Q2 |
| Software | 223 / 503 | 55th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
Digital Government: Research and Practice is Q2 in Public Administration (rank 74 of 248), Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 195 of 568) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 196 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Digital Government: Research and Practice is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2, 70th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.490, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
Digital Government: Research and Practice is published by Association for Computing Machinery. Its ISSN is 2639-0175.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Digital Government: Research and Practice has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 7.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
Digital Government: Research and Practice published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 61. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.8%), Netherlands (7.2%) and Australia (7.2%).
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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