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Foundations and Trends in Databases is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Now Publishers Inc.
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ISSN 1931-7883Verify ISSN ↗1931-7891Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science (all) | 66 / 241 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–2025 (also 2015–2018, 2009–2013, 2007), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.2.
Foundations and Trends in Databases is Q2 in Computer Science (all) (rank 66 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Foundations and Trends in Databases 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.224, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 23.
Foundations and Trends in Databases is published by Now Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1931-7883 and its online ISSN is 1931-7891.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Foundations and Trends in Databases has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 3.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 219 Scopus journals in Computer Science (all).
Foundations and Trends in Databases published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 6. 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 19 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (70.2%), India (5.3%) and Canada (5.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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