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Information Systems Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.8), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI, FT50, UT Dallas 24. Published by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
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ISSN 1047-7047Verify ISSN ↗1526-5536Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 11 / 296 | 96th | Q1 |
| Information Systems and Management | 13 / 222 | 94th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 33 / 568 | 94th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 43 / 519 | 91st | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 13 / 143 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.8.
Information Systems Research is Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 11 of 296), Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 13 of 222) and Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 33 of 568), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Information Systems Research 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 13.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.679, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 203.
Information Systems Research is published by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Its print ISSN is 1047-7047 and its online ISSN is 1526-5536.
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 4* 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 Research has an h-index of 238 and a 2-year mean of 5.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Information Systems Research published 132 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 137. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (58.8%), China (14.4%) and Hong Kong SAR China (5.4%). 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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