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Information Resources Management Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by IGI Global.
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ISSN 1040-1628Verify ISSN ↗1533-7979Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Global
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 110 / 296 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 319 / 506 | 36th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 290 / 456 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Information Resources Management Journal is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 110 of 296), Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 319 of 506) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 290 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Information Resources Management Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.219, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 49.
Information Resources Management Journal is published by IGI Global. Its print ISSN is 1040-1628 and its online ISSN is 1533-7979.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 1 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 Resources Management Journal has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Information Resources Management Journal published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 51. 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 85 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (72.7%), United States (5.9%) and Germany (3.5%). 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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