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Information-Wissenschaft und Praxis is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. Published by De Gruyter Saur.
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ISSN 1434-4653Verify ISSN ↗1619-4292Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 263 / 296 | 10th | Q4 |
| Information Systems | 483 / 519 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Information-Wissenschaft und Praxis is Q4 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 263 of 296) and Q4 in Information Systems (rank 483 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Information-Wissenschaft und Praxis is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 10th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.205, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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-Wissenschaft und Praxis is published by De Gruyter Saur. Its print ISSN is 1434-4653 and its online ISSN is 1619-4292.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Information-Wissenschaft und Praxis has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #222 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Information-Wissenschaft und Praxis published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 76. 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 52 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (79.8%), Austria (11.5%) and Switzerland (3.8%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2 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.
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