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Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1867-8211Verify ISSN ↗1867-822XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 437 / 568 | 23rd | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST is Q4 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 437 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST 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 0.9, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.156, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 58.
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1867-8211 and its online ISSN is 1867-822X.
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.
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 0.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #329 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST published 1,519 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 2,115. 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.
Scopus status: Active. 11 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 16 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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