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Information Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0197-2243Verify ISSN ↗1087-6537Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 29 / 1434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 62 / 745 | 91st | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 163 / 519 | 68th | Q2 |
| Management Information Systems | 47 / 143 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present (also 1981–1990), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Information Society is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 29 of 1434), Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 62 of 745) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 163 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Information Society is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.978, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 95.
Information Society is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0197-2243 and its online ISSN is 1087-6537.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 3 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 Society has an h-index of 116 and a 2-year mean of 4.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Information Society published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 37. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.8%), United Kingdom (12.7%) and Netherlands (12.3%).
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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