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Distributed and Parallel Databases is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 0926-8782Verify ISSN ↗1573-7578Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 52 / 222 | 76th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 159 / 519 | 69th | Q2 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 81 / 245 | 67th | Q2 |
| Software | 172 / 503 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Distributed and Parallel Databases is Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 52 of 222), Q2 in Information Systems (rank 159 of 519) and Q2 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 81 of 245), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Distributed and Parallel Databases 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.385, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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.
Distributed and Parallel Databases is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 0926-8782 and its online ISSN is 1573-7578.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Distributed and Parallel Databases has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
Distributed and Parallel Databases published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 47. 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 95 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (24.6%), China (21.9%) and United States (14%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (7.5 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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