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i-com is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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ISSN 1618-162XVerify ISSN ↗2196-6826Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 141 / 541 | 74th | Q2 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 90 / 235 | 61st | Q2 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 233 / 568 | 59th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 139 / 315 | 56th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 233 / 519 | 55th | Q2 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 116 / 196 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010 (also 2018–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
i-com is Q2 in Communication (rank 141 of 541), Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 90 of 235) and Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 233 of 568), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
i-com 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.286, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$848 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.
i-com is published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Its print ISSN is 1618-162X and its online ISSN is 2196-6826.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
i-com has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #112 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
i-com published 41 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (80.2%), New Zealand (2.9%) and Iraq (2.1%). 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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