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Journal of Payments Strategy and Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). Published by Henry Stewart Publications.
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ISSN 1750-1806Verify ISSN ↗1750-1814Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Henry Stewart Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 150 / 222 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Information Systems | 393 / 519 | 24th | Q4 |
| Accounting | 154 / 191 | 19th | Q4 |
| Management Information Systems | 123 / 143 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Payments Strategy and Systems is Q3 in Information Systems and Management (rank 150 of 222), Q4 in Information Systems (rank 393 of 519) and Q4 in Accounting (rank 154 of 191), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Payments Strategy and Systems 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 1, quartile Q3, 32nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.209, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Payments Strategy and Systems is published by Henry Stewart Publications. Its print ISSN is 1750-1806 and its online ISSN is 1750-1814.
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 Payments Strategy and Systems has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #113 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
Journal of Payments Strategy and Systems published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 43. 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 38 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.6%), Germany (19.7%) and Switzerland (8.8%).
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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