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Knowledge and Information Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), ABDC C, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0219-1377Verify ISSN ↗0219-3116Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware and Architecture | 58 / 245 | 76th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 128 / 519 | 75th | Q1 |
| Software | 133 / 503 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 154 / 570 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 70 / 196 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
Knowledge and Information Systems is Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 58 of 245), Q1 in Information Systems (rank 128 of 519) and Q2 in Software (rank 133 of 503), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Knowledge and Information Systems is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.869, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 106.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Knowledge and Information Systems is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0219-1377 and its online ISSN is 0219-3116.
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.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Knowledge and Information Systems has an h-index of 122 and a 2-year mean of 4.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 166 Scopus journals in Hardware and Architecture.
Knowledge and Information Systems published 336 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (39.4%), India (23.1%) and United States (6.9%).
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 2 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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