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Information Services and Use is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0167-5265Verify ISSN ↗1875-8789Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 183 / 296 | 38th | Q3 |
| Information Systems | 401 / 519 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Computer Science Applications | 847 / 1022 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Information Services and Use is Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 183 of 296), Q4 in Information Systems (rank 401 of 519) and Q4 in Computer Science Applications (rank 847 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Information Services and Use is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3, 38th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.160, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Information Services and Use is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0167-5265 and its online ISSN is 1875-8789.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Information Services and Use has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 1.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Information Services and Use published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 48. 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 84 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (47.5%), Nigeria (10.1%) and United Kingdom (7.9%).
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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