Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI. Published by IGI Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1548-0631Verify ISSN ↗1548-064XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 294 / 568 | 48th | Q3 |
| Management Information Systems | 92 / 143 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2005–2022), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking is Q3 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 294 of 568) and Q3 in Management Information Systems (rank 92 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.248, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking is published by IGI Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1548-0631 and its online ISSN is 1548-064X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 2.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #165 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking published 3 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 26. 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 24 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (50.1%), Tunisia (6.9%) and Algeria (4.9%). 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 2 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.
Comments load as you scroll here.