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Journal of Strategic Information Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22.1), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0963-8687Verify ISSN ↗1873-1198Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,160 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 3 / 222 | 98th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 11 / 519 | 97th | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 5 / 143 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.1.
Journal of Strategic Information Systems is Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 3 of 222), Q1 in Information Systems (rank 11 of 519) and Q1 in Management Information Systems (rank 5 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Strategic Information Systems is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 22.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.030, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 120.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,160 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 Strategic Information Systems is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0963-8687 and its online ISSN is 1873-1198.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Strategic Information Systems has an h-index of 137 and a 2-year mean of 11.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
Journal of Strategic Information Systems published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 41. 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 92 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Canada (22.8%), United States (16.9%) and Australia (16.2%).
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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