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Electronic Government is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1740-7494Verify ISSN ↗1740-7508Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 152 / 248 | 38th | Q3 |
| Computer Science Applications | 707 / 1022 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Electronic Government is Q3 in Public Administration (rank 152 of 248) and Q3 in Computer Science Applications (rank 707 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Electronic Government 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.222, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 42.
Electronic Government is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1740-7494 and its online ISSN is 1740-7508.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Electronic Government has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 0.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #188 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
Electronic Government published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 84. 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 50 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (26%), Indonesia (14%) and Jordan (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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