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VLDB Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 0949-877XVerify ISSN ↗1066-8888Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: About US$2,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware and Architecture | 26 / 245 | 89th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 72 / 519 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.4.
VLDB Journal is Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 26 of 245) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 72 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
VLDB Journal 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 10.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.258, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 106.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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.
VLDB Journal is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0949-877X and its online ISSN is 1066-8888.
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.
VLDB Journal has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 3.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 166 Scopus journals in Hardware and Architecture.
VLDB Journal published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 74. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (35.4%), United States (19.5%) and Hong Kong SAR China (8.9%).
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.
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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