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Visual Informatics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2468-502XVerify ISSN ↗2543-2656Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 15 / 131 | 88th | Q1 |
| Software | 73 / 503 | 85th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 42 / 196 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.8.
Visual Informatics is Q1 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 15 of 131), Q1 in Software (rank 73 of 503) and Q1 in Human-Computer Interaction (rank 42 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Visual Informatics 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 9.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.684, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Visual Informatics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 2468-502X and its online ISSN is 2543-2656.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Visual Informatics has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 100 Scopus journals in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.
Visual Informatics published 56 papers in 2025. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (68.8%), Hong Kong SAR China (7.3%) and United States (4.8%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (9.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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