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Information and Organization is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.6), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 1471-7727Verify ISSN ↗1873-7919Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 28 / 296 | 90th | Q1 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 35 / 254 | 86th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 81 / 519 | 84th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 56 / 317 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 29 / 143 | 80th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 23 days |
| Acceptance → online publication | 18 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1996–1997), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.6.
Information and Organization is Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 28 of 296), Q1 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 35 of 254) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 81 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Information and Organization is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 9.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.726, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 83.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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.
Information and Organization is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 1471-7727 and its online ISSN is 1873-7919.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 3 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.
Information and Organization has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 8.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Information and Organization published 34 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.7%), Germany (10.6%) and United Kingdom (9.2%).
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.
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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