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Information Fusion is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 26.7), 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 1566-2535Verify ISSN ↗1872-6305Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,740 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Processing | 1 / 203 | 99th | Q1 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 2 / 245 | 99th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 5 / 519 | 99th | Q1 |
| Software | 9 / 503 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 26.7.
Information Fusion is Q1 in Signal Processing (rank 1 of 203), Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 2 of 245) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 5 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Information Fusion 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 26.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.197, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 201.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,740 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 Fusion is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1566-2535 and its online ISSN is 1872-6305.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Information Fusion has an h-index of 219 and a 2-year mean of 12.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 26.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 127 Scopus journals in Signal Processing.
Information Fusion published 1,065 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (77.6%), Hong Kong SAR China (3.7%) and South Korea (2.3%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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