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IET Information Security is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1751-8709Verify ISSN ↗1751-8717Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 201 / 568 | 64th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 204 / 519 | 60th | Q2 |
| Software | 227 / 503 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
IET Information Security is Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 201 of 568), Q2 in Information Systems (rank 204 of 519) and Q2 in Software (rank 227 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
IET Information Security 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.466, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 47.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,610 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.
IET Information Security is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1751-8709 and its online ISSN is 1751-8717.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IET Information Security has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 2.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #152 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
IET Information Security published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 79. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (56.7%), Saudi Arabia (6.6%) and South Korea (3.9%). 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 1 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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