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Future Generation Computer Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0167-739XVerify ISSN ↗1872-7115Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware and Architecture | 4 / 245 | 98th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 15 / 568 | 97th | Q1 |
| Software | 23 / 503 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.
Future Generation Computer Systems is Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 4 of 245), Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 15 of 568) and Q1 in Software (rank 23 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Future Generation Computer Systems 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 17, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.484, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 193.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Future Generation Computer Systems is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0167-739X and its online ISSN is 1872-7115.
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.
Future Generation Computer Systems has an h-index of 215 and a 2-year mean of 6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 166 Scopus journals in Hardware and Architecture.
Future Generation Computer Systems published 569 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 790. 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (41.5%), United States (10%) and Spain (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 48 retracted papers are recorded (5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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