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International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.6). Published by IGI Global Publishing.
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ISSN 1942-3926Verify ISSN ↗1942-3934Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Global Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 306 / 503 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2014–2024, 2009–2012), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.6.
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes is Q3 in Software (rank 306 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes 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 2.6, quartile Q3, 39th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.237, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes is published by IGI Global Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1942-3926 and its online ISSN is 1942-3934.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #304 of 371 Scopus journals in Software.
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes published 3 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 24. 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 35 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (62.9%), Egypt (8.6%) and Algeria (5.7%). 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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