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Journal of Information Science and Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Institute of Information Science.
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ISSN 1016-2364Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Information Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 136 / 296 | 54th | Q2 |
| Computational Theory and Mathematics | 131 / 203 | 35th | Q3 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 178 / 245 | 27th | Q3 |
| Software | 378 / 503 | 24th | Q4 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 156 / 196 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1993–1994), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Information Science and Engineering is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 136 of 296), Q3 in Computational Theory and Mathematics (rank 131 of 203) and Q3 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 178 of 245), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Information Science and Engineering 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.211, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 44.
Journal of Information Science and Engineering is published by Institute of Information Science. Its ISSN is 1016-2364.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Information Science and Engineering has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #244 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Journal of Information Science and Engineering published 3 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 81. 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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