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Science of Computer Programming is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), 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 0167-6423Verify ISSN ↗1872-7964Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,600 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computational Theory and Mathematics | 66 / 203 | 67th | Q2 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 134 / 397 | 66th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 215 / 519 | 58th | Q2 |
| Software | 242 / 503 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Science of Computer Programming is Q2 in Computational Theory and Mathematics (rank 66 of 203), Q2 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 134 of 397) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 215 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Science of Computer Programming 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.387, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 71.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,600 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 of Computer Programming is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0167-6423 and its online ISSN is 1872-7964.
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 of Computer Programming has an h-index of 104 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #75 of 178 Scopus journals in Computational Theory and Mathematics.
Science of Computer Programming published 116 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 127. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (27.5%), Italy (7%) and Germany (7%).
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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