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Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.8), formerly ABDC A. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer London.
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ISSN 1617-4909Verify ISSN ↗1617-4917Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer London
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 24 / 296 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 143 / 1022 | 86th | Q1 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 35 / 245 | 85th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 36 / 225 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.8.
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 24 of 296), Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 143 of 1022) and Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 35 of 245), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 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 9.8, quartile Q1, 92nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.539, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 106.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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.
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is published by Springer London. Its print ISSN is 1617-4909 and its online ISSN is 1617-4917.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing has an h-index of 127 and a 2-year mean of 5.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 173. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Italy (8.4%), United Kingdom (8%) and India (7.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 98 retracted papers are recorded (45.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 13 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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