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Multimedia Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 0942-4962Verify ISSN ↗1432-1882Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Technology | 11 / 83 | 87th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 131 / 568 | 77th | Q1 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 66 / 245 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 140 / 519 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Software | 142 / 503 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1993–2000), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Multimedia Systems is Q1 in Media Technology (rank 11 of 83), Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 131 of 568) and Q2 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 66 of 245), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Multimedia 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.669, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,490 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.
Multimedia Systems is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0942-4962 and its online ISSN is 1432-1882.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Multimedia Systems has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 2.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 54 Scopus journals in Media Technology.
Multimedia Systems published 493 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (84.8%), Spain (3.3%) and Hong Kong SAR China (1.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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 5 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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