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Journal of Grid Computing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1570-7873Verify ISSN ↗1572-9184Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 90 / 568 | 84th | Q1 |
| Software | 85 / 503 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 94 / 519 | 81st | Q1 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 45 / 245 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.9.
Journal of Grid Computing is Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 90 of 568), Q1 in Software (rank 85 of 503) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 94 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Grid Computing 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 8.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.790, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 65.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,490 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Grid Computing is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1570-7873 and its online ISSN is 1572-9184.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Grid Computing has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 8.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Journal of Grid Computing published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 84. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (34.6%), India (14.4%) and Iran (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 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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