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International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1741-539XVerify ISSN ↗1741-5403Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems | 328 / 519 | 36th | Q3 |
| Computer Science Applications | 687 / 1022 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Management Information Systems | 103 / 143 | 28th | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 170 / 225 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2025 (also 2006–2013), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics is Q3 in Information Systems (rank 328 of 519), Q3 in Computer Science Applications (rank 687 of 1022) and Q3 in Management Information Systems (rank 103 of 143), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics 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 1.8, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.251, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1741-539X and its online ISSN is 1741-5403.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2016 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #353 of 397 Scopus journals in Information Systems.
International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 43. 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 58 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from India (54.3%), Spain (16.4%) and Portugal (5.2%). 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 1 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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