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Journal of Information Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8). Published by McFarland and Company, Inc.
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ISSN 1061-9321Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 313 / 891 | 64th | Q2 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 203 / 296 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2025 (also 1996–2019, 1994, 1992), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Information Ethics is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 313 of 891) and Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 203 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Information Ethics 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 0.8, quartile Q2, 64th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.142, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Journal of Information Ethics is published by McFarland and Company, Inc. Its ISSN is 1061-9321.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Information Ethics has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #698 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of Information Ethics published 2 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 31. 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.
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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