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MIS Quarterly Executive is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.7), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by Kelley School of Business, Department of Information Systems, Indiana University.
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ISSN 1540-1960Verify ISSN ↗1540-1979Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kelley School of Business, Department of Information Systems, Indiana University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 217 / 755 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.7.
MIS Quarterly Executive is Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 217 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
MIS Quarterly Executive 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.868, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 61.
MIS Quarterly Executive is published by Kelley School of Business, Department of Information Systems, Indiana University. Its print ISSN is 1540-1960 and its online ISSN is 1540-1979.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 2 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.
MIS Quarterly Executive has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 3.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #171 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
MIS Quarterly Executive published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 25. 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 21 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (30.2%), Denmark (19%) and Germany (12.7%).
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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