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Information Systems Frontiers is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 26.4), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 1387-3326Verify ISSN ↗1572-9419Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 5 / 568 | 99th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 6 / 519 | 98th | Q1 |
| Theoretical Computer Science | 3 / 135 | 98th | Q1 |
| Software | 10 / 503 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 26.4.
Information Systems Frontiers is Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 5 of 568), Q1 in Information Systems (rank 6 of 519) and Q1 in Theoretical Computer Science (rank 3 of 135), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Information Systems Frontiers 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 26.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.549, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 106.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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 Systems Frontiers is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1387-3326 and its online ISSN is 1572-9419.
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.
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 Systems Frontiers has an h-index of 132 and a 2-year mean of 6.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 26.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Information Systems Frontiers published 108 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 140. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (13.6%), France (9.9%) and India (9.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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