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Information Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0020-0255Verify ISSN ↗1872-6291Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,200 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 9 / 222 | 96th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 19 / 390 | 95th | Q1 |
| Theoretical Computer Science | 7 / 135 | 95th | Q1 |
| Software | 31 / 503 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 64 / 1022 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 46 / 570 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.6.
Information Sciences is Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 9 of 222), Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 19 of 390) and Q1 in Theoretical Computer Science (rank 7 of 135), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Information Sciences 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 14.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.507, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 255.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,200 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 Sciences is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0020-0255 and its online ISSN is 1872-6291.
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 Sciences has an h-index of 281 and a 2-year mean of 5.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
Information Sciences published 990 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 1,490. 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 76 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (63.8%), United States (5.3%) and India (2.6%). 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. 13 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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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