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International Journal of Services and Standards is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1). Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1740-8849Verify ISSN ↗1740-8857Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 270 / 317 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present (also 2004–2020), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
International Journal of Services and Standards is Q4 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 270 of 317), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Services and Standards 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 1, quartile Q4, 14th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.166, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 20.
International Journal of Services and Standards is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1740-8849 and its online ISSN is 1740-8857.
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 Services and Standards has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #233 of 291 Scopus journals in Management of Technology and Innovation.
International Journal of Services and Standards published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 30. 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 24 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (29.2%), United States (16.7%) and Malaysia (16.7%).
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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