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Online Information Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.4), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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ISSN 1468-4527Verify ISSN ↗1468-4535Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 36 / 296 | 88th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 191 / 1022 | 81st | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 102 / 519 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1997, 1980–1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.4.
Online Information Review is Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 36 of 296), Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 191 of 1022) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 102 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Online Information Review 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 8.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.896, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 85.
Online Information Review is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Its print ISSN is 1468-4527 and its online ISSN is 1468-4535.
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 B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 1 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.
Online Information Review has an h-index of 107 and a 2-year mean of 5.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Online Information Review published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 102. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (28.6%), United States (9.5%) and South Korea (5.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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