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Science China Information Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Science China Press.
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ISSN 1674-733XVerify ISSN ↗1869-1919Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science China Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science (all) | 23 / 241 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.4.
Science China Information Sciences is Q1 in Computer Science (all) (rank 23 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Science China Information Sciences 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 12.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.247, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 101.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Science China Information Sciences is published by Science China Press. Its print ISSN is 1674-733X and its online ISSN is 1869-1919.
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.
Science China Information Sciences has an h-index of 104 and a 2-year mean of 7.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 219 Scopus journals in Computer Science (all).
Science China Information Sciences published 380 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 380. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (84%), United States (4.7%) and Singapore (2.6%). 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 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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