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Pervasive and Mobile Computing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1574-1192Verify ISSN ↗1873-1589Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,620 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 93 / 568 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Software | 87 / 503 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 182 / 1022 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 96 / 519 | 81st | Q1 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 46 / 245 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.8.
Pervasive and Mobile Computing is Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 93 of 568), Q1 in Software (rank 87 of 503) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 182 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Pervasive and Mobile Computing 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 8.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.824, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,620 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.
Pervasive and Mobile Computing is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1574-1192 and its online ISSN is 1873-1589.
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.
Pervasive and Mobile Computing has an h-index of 96 and a 2-year mean of 3.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #122 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Pervasive and Mobile Computing published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 132. 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 (23.4%), India (19.6%) and United States (7.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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