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International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience.
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ISSN 1754-3916Verify ISSN ↗1754-3924Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 287 / 568 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.6.
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems is Q3 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 287 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.240, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems is published by Inderscience. Its print ISSN is 1754-3916 and its online ISSN is 1754-3924.
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 Communication Networks and Distributed Systems has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #340 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 118. 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 51 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (54.9%), China (7.8%) and Saudi Arabia (7.5%). 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.
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