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International Journal of Web Information Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.2), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 1744-0084Verify ISSN ↗1744-0092Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 169 / 568 | 70th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 173 / 519 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.2.
International Journal of Web Information Systems is Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 169 of 568) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 173 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Web Information Systems 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.542, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
International Journal of Web Information Systems is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1744-0084 and its online ISSN is 1744-0092.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It was rated C in the 2010 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 Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Web Information Systems has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 1.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #214 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
International Journal of Web Information Systems published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 44. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (71.5%), India (3.1%) and Iraq (2.6%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (7.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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