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Journal of Information Technology and Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1933-1681Verify ISSN ↗1933-169XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 90 / 1530 | 94th | Q1 |
| Communication | 47 / 541 | 91st | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 26 / 248 | 89th | Q1 |
| Computer Science (all) | 51 / 241 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
Journal of Information Technology and Politics is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 90 of 1530), Q1 in Communication (rank 47 of 541) and Q1 in Public Administration (rank 26 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Information Technology and Politics is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 7.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.168, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
Journal of Information Technology and Politics is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1933-1681 and its online ISSN is 1933-169X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Information Technology and Politics has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 2.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #258 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Information Technology and Politics published 80 papers in 2025. 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 22 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (22.7%), United States (22.7%) and Switzerland (9.1%).
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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