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Discover Computing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 2948-2984Verify ISSN ↗2948-2992Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 120 / 296 | 59th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 314 / 519 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Discover Computing is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 120 of 296) and Q3 in Information Systems (rank 314 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Discover Computing is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.386, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 67.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,520 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.
Discover Computing is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 2948-2984 and its online ISSN is 2948-2992.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover Computing has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 2.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Discover Computing published 348 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (40.7%), China (28.3%) and Saudi Arabia (3.3%).
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.
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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