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International Journal of Web Based Communities is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC C. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd..
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ISSN 1477-8394Verify ISSN ↗1741-8216Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 275 / 541 | 49th | Q3 |
| Education | 1047 / 1698 | 38th | Q3 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 376 / 568 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Software | 391 / 503 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
International Journal of Web Based Communities is Q3 in Communication (rank 275 of 541), Q3 in Education (rank 1047 of 1698) and Q3 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 376 of 568), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Web Based Communities 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 1.5, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.198, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
International Journal of Web Based Communities is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1477-8394 and its online ISSN is 1741-8216.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Web Based Communities has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #400 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
International Journal of Web Based Communities published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 66. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (70.7%), United States (6.9%) and South Korea (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 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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