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Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 1947-945XVerify ISSN ↗1947-9468Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 220 / 296 | 25th | Q3 |
| Information Systems and Management | 172 / 222 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 473 / 568 | 16th | Q4 |
| Information Systems | 442 / 519 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services is Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 220 of 296), Q4 in Information Systems and Management (rank 172 of 222) and Q4 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 473 of 568), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services 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 0.6, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1947-945X and its online ISSN is 1947-9468.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #122 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 92. 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.
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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