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International Journal of Software Innovation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS ESCI. Published by IGI Global Publishing.
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ISSN 2166-7160Verify ISSN ↗2166-7179Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Global Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 279 / 568 | 50th | Q2 |
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 66 / 131 | 50th | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 292 / 570 | 48th | Q3 |
| Computer Science Applications | 576 / 1022 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Software | 300 / 503 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
International Journal of Software Innovation is Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 279 of 568), Q2 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 66 of 131) and Q3 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 292 of 570), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Software Innovation 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.174, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
International Journal of Software Innovation is published by IGI Global Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2166-7160 and its online ISSN is 2166-7179.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Software Innovation has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #273 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
International Journal of Software Innovation published 3 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 170. 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 93 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from India (45%), Japan (12.2%) and South Korea (10.8%).
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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