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Journal of Information Systems Security is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), formerly ABDC C. Published by Information Institute.
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ISSN 1551-0123Verify ISSN ↗1551-0808Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Information Institute
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 178 / 222 | 20th | Q4 |
| Education | 1473 / 1698 | 13th | Q4 |
| Information Systems | 458 / 519 | 11th | Q4 |
| Management Information Systems | 134 / 143 | 6th | Q4 |
| Safety Research | 102 / 108 | 6th | Q4 |
| Software | 482 / 503 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Information Systems Security is Q4 in Information Systems and Management (rank 178 of 222), Q4 in Education (rank 1473 of 1698) and Q4 in Information Systems (rank 458 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Information Systems Security 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 20th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Journal of Information Systems Security is published by Information Institute. Its print ISSN is 1551-0123 and its online ISSN is 1551-0808.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Information Systems Security has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
Journal of Information Systems Security published 3 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 10. 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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