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International Journal of Business Information Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd..
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ISSN 1746-0972Verify ISSN ↗1746-0980Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 102 / 222 | 54th | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 197 / 317 | 38th | Q3 |
| Management Information Systems | 96 / 143 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
International Journal of Business Information Systems is Q2 in Information Systems and Management (rank 102 of 222), Q3 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 197 of 317) and Q3 in Management Information Systems (rank 96 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Business Information Systems is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2, 54th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.227, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
International Journal of Business Information Systems is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1746-0972 and its online ISSN is 1746-0980.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 1 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.
International Journal of Business Information Systems has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #105 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
International Journal of Business Information Systems published 130 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 248. 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 58 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (34.2%), United States (10.9%) and Malaysia (9.8%).
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 4 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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