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International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd..
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ISSN 1479-3121Verify ISSN ↗1479-313XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 136 / 235 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Decision Sciences (all) | 33 / 43 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management is Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 136 of 235) and Q4 in Decision Sciences (all) (rank 33 of 43), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management 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 2.2, quartile Q3, 42nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.215, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1479-3121 and its online ISSN is 1479-313X.
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 Information Systems and Change Management has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #173 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 41. 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 49 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from China (31%), India (28.6%) and Pakistan (7.8%).
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 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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