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International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by IGI Global Publishing.
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ISSN 1935-5688Verify ISSN ↗1935-5696Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Global Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 90 / 222 | 59th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 275 / 519 | 47th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 299 / 506 | 41st | Q3 |
| Management Information Systems | 87 / 143 | 39th | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 137 / 225 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector is Q2 in Information Systems and Management (rank 90 of 222), Q3 in Information Systems (rank 275 of 519) and Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 299 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector 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 Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.188, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector is published by IGI Global Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1935-5688 and its online ISSN is 1935-5696.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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 in the Service Sector has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 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 78 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (51.2%), Taiwan (5.8%) and Malaysia (4.5%). 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 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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