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Journal of Interactive Marketing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 1094-9968Verify ISSN ↗1520-6653Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$5,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 43 / 456 | 90th | Q1 |
| Marketing | 33 / 221 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.1.
Journal of Interactive Marketing is Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 43 of 456) and Q1 in Marketing (rank 33 of 221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Interactive Marketing 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 12.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.125, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 142.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,400 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 Interactive Marketing is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 1094-9968 and its online ISSN is 1520-6653.
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.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Marketing field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Interactive Marketing has an h-index of 161 and a 2-year mean of 3.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
Journal of Interactive Marketing published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 48. 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 79 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.4%), Germany (8.4%) and France (8.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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