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Foundations and Trends in Information Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), ABS / AJG 1. Published by Now Publishers Inc.
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ISSN 2331-1231Verify ISSN ↗2331-124XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems | 244 / 519 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Management Information Systems | 74 / 143 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Foundations and Trends in Information Systems is Q2 in Information Systems (rank 244 of 519) and Q3 in Management Information Systems (rank 74 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
Foundations and Trends in Information Systems is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2, 53rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.224, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Foundations and Trends in Information Systems is published by Now Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 2331-1231 and its online ISSN is 2331-124X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Foundations and Trends in Information Systems has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #362 of 397 Scopus journals in Information Systems.
Foundations and Trends in Information Systems published 57 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 37 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.7%), Malaysia (16.2%) and South Africa (8.1%).
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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