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Education for Information is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0167-8329Verify ISSN ↗1875-8649Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 112 / 296 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Education | 841 / 1698 | 50th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 302 / 519 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Education for Information is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 112 of 296), Q2 in Education (rank 841 of 1698) and Q3 in Information Systems (rank 302 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Education for Information 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.284, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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.
Education for Information is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0167-8329 and its online ISSN is 1875-8649.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Education for Information has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #136 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Education for Information published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 48. 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 87 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (14.9%), Croatia (8.4%) and India (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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