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Information and Software Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.8), formerly ABDC A, 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 0950-5849Verify ISSN ↗1873-6025Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,830 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 60 / 503 | 88th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 123 / 1022 | 88th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 66 / 519 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.8.
Information and Software Technology is Q1 in Software (rank 60 of 503), Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 123 of 1022) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 66 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Information and Software Technology 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 10.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.054, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 137.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,830 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 Software Technology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0950-5849 and its online ISSN is 1873-6025.
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 was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Information and Software Technology has an h-index of 167 and a 2-year mean of 4.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 371 Scopus journals in Software.
Information and Software Technology published 270 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (20.5%), United States (10.1%) and Italy (7.5%).
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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