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Industrial Management and Data Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0263-5577Verify ISSN ↗1758-5783Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Relations | 5 / 61 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 51 / 425 | 88th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 134 / 1022 | 86th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 89 / 506 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 26 / 143 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.1.
Industrial Management and Data Systems is Q1 in Industrial Relations (rank 5 of 61), Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 51 of 425) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 134 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Industrial Management and Data 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 10.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.263, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 141.
Industrial Management and Data Systems is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0263-5577 and its online ISSN is 1758-5783.
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.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Industrial Management and Data Systems has an h-index of 160 and a 2-year mean of 5.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 57 Scopus journals in Industrial Relations.
Industrial Management and Data Systems published 183 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (66.9%), United Kingdom (5.8%) and United States (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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