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International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5). Published by IGI Global Publishing.
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ISSN 1941-6253Verify ISSN ↗1941-6261Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Global Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 65 / 222 | 70th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 422 / 1022 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development is Q2 in Information Systems and Management (rank 65 of 222) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 422 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development 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 4.5, quartile Q2, 70th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.153, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 19.
International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development is published by IGI Global Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1941-6253 and its online ISSN is 1941-6261.
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 Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 2.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 59. 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 96 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (27.4%), Egypt (13%) and Saudi Arabia (9.4%).
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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