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Journal of Database Management is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.6), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE. Published by IGI Global.
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ISSN 1063-8016Verify ISSN ↗1533-8010Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Global
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems | 279 / 519 | 46th | Q3 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 144 / 245 | 41st | Q3 |
| Software | 308 / 503 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.6.
Journal of Database Management is Q3 in Information Systems (rank 279 of 519), Q3 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 144 of 245) and Q3 in Software (rank 308 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Database Management is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.263, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
Journal of Database Management is published by IGI Global. Its print ISSN is 1063-8016 and its online ISSN is 1533-8010.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
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.
Journal of Database Management has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 5.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 397 Scopus journals in Information Systems.
Journal of Database Management published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 48. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (45.7%), United States (21.1%) and India (11.8%).
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 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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