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Universal Access in the Information Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), formerly ABDC C, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Verlag.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1615-5289Verify ISSN ↗1615-5297Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
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 Networks and Communications | 111 / 568 | 80th | Q1 |
| Software | 111 / 503 | 78th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 118 / 519 | 77th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 65 / 196 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
Universal Access in the Information Society is Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 111 of 568), Q1 in Software (rank 111 of 503) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 118 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Universal Access in the Information Society is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.814, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 65.
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.
Universal Access in the Information Society is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 1615-5289 and its online ISSN is 1615-5297.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated C in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Universal Access in the Information Society has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 3.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Universal Access in the Information Society published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 115. 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 Spain (13.1%), United States (11.1%) and China (10.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.7 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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