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Service Oriented Computing and Applications is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer London.
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ISSN 1863-2386Verify ISSN ↗1863-2394Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer London
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems | 213 / 519 | 59th | Q2 |
| Management Information Systems | 63 / 143 | 56th | Q2 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 108 / 245 | 56th | Q2 |
| Software | 235 / 503 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Service Oriented Computing and Applications is Q2 in Information Systems (rank 213 of 519), Q2 in Management Information Systems (rank 63 of 143) and Q2 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 108 of 245), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Service Oriented Computing and Applications is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.375, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Service Oriented Computing and Applications is published by Springer London. Its print ISSN is 1863-2386 and its online ISSN is 1863-2394.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Service Oriented Computing and Applications has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 3.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 397 Scopus journals in Information Systems.
Service Oriented Computing and Applications published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 58. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (53.7%), India (11.1%) and Iraq (5.8%). 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 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.
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