Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Information Systems journal rankings 2004
81 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Information Systems has 81 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2003 to 0.70, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.53. The top three are ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Computer Science (11)
- Artificial Intelligence188
- Information Systems81
- Computational Theory and Mathematics71
- Computer Networks and Communications63
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition61
- Computer Science Applications11
- Hardware and Architecture9
- Human-Computer Interaction9
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design8
- Signal Processing6
- Software3
81 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2004. | Compare |
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1ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 13.78Q1 | 7.81 0.74 down from 2003 | 34 | 19% | — | ||
2User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.41Q1 | 6.69 1.24 down from 2003 | 46 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
3ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.41Q1 | 9.07 2.99 up from 2003 | 38 | 9% | — | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.01Q1 | 5.36 0.88 up from 2003 | 238 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
5ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.60Q1 | 5.06 0.95 up from 2003 | 670 | 3% | $2,995 | ||
6Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 5.48Q1 | 1.66 1.08 up from 2003 | 168 | 8% | $2,990 | ||
7IEEE SoftwareIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.77Q1 | 2.62 0.19 up from 2003 | 374 | 4% | $2,995 | ||
8IEEE Security & PrivacyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.19Q1 | 2.14no 2003 value | 100 | 1% | $2,995 | — | |
9Distributed and Parallel DatabasesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.92Q1 | 4.61 2.64 up from 2003 | 63 | 11% | $3,290 | ||
10D-Lib MagazineOACorporation for National Research Initiatives · United States | 3.83Q1 | 1.61 0.25 up from 2003 | 204 | 100% | — | ||
11Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 2.60 1.07 up from 2003 | 57 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
12ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering NotesAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.64Q1 | 1.31 0.64 down from 2003 | 418 | 2% | — | ||
13Annals of Software EngineeringSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 3.46Q1 | 2.71 1.50 up from 2003 | 53 | — | — | ||
14Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 1.41 0.21 up from 2003 | 69 | 5% | $2,290 | ||
15Journal of the American Society for Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 3.08Q1 | 2.16 0.05 up from 2003 | 562 | 8% | — | ||
16Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 1.06 0.38 down from 2003 | 188 | 5% | — | ||
17Science of Computer ProgrammingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 2.38 0.43 up from 2003 | 106 | 96% | $2,600 | ||
18Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution Research and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 1.49 0.12 up from 2003 | 65 | 11% | — | ||
19International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge EngineeringWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.75Q1 | 0.98 0.69 down from 2003 | 91 | 6% | — | ||
20The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.72Q1 | 0.92 0.48 down from 2003 | 56 | 0% | $3,230 | ||
21ACM SIGIR ForumAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.53Q1 | 1.98 1.26 up from 2003 | 49 | 3% | — | ||
22Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.49Q2 | 1.10 0.18 down from 2003 | 118 | 5% | $3,630 | ||
23Software Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.41Q2 | 1.81 0.07 up from 2003 | 209 | 10% | $4,650 | ||
24Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.24Q2 | 1.31 0.11 down from 2003 | 307 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
25Library Resources and Technical ServicesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 2.00Q2 | 0.73 0.35 down from 2003 | 48 | 62% | — | ||
26Software Quality JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.97Q2 | 0.93 0.54 up from 2003 | 59 | 8% | $3,290 | ||
27Information Technology and LibrariesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 1.96Q2 | 0.67 0.06 up from 2003 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
28Software Process Improvement and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 0.74 0.19 down from 2003 | 51 | 12% | — | ||
29Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q2 | 1.17 0.15 down from 2003 | 433 | 5% | $3,820 | ||
30Information Management & Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.68Q2 | 1.05 0.09 up from 2003 | 86 | 7% | — | ||
31New Review of Information Behaviour ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 0.44 0.36 down from 2003 | 30 | — | — | ||
32IT ProfessionalIEEE Computer Society · United States | 1.48Q2 | 0.42 0.59 down from 2003 | 151 | 1% | $2,645 | ||
33Journal of Computer Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 1.19 0.62 up from 2003 | 189 | 15% | — | ||
34QueueAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.39Q2 | 0.79no 2003 value | 87 | 90% | — | — | |
35Data Science JournalOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 0.79 0.31 down from 2003 | 39 | 100% | $429 | ||
36Collection BuildingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 0.37 0.11 up from 2003 | 90 | 3% | — | ||
37The Serials LibrarianTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.90Q2 | 0.38 0.17 up from 2003 | 265 | 40% | — | ||
38OCLC Systems & ServicesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 0.41 0.10 up from 2003 | 68 | 10% | — | ||
39Collection ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.22 0.02 up from 2003 | 79 | 2% | — | ||
40The Acquisitions LibrarianTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.70Q2 | 0.23 0.41 down from 2003 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
41The Reference LibrarianTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.70Q2 | 0.22 0.06 up from 2003 | 146 | 0% | — | ||
42Journal of Internet CatalogingHaworth Press · United States | 0.68Q3 | 0.11 0.39 down from 2003 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
43Library Collections Acquisitions and Technical ServicesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 0.39 0.16 up from 2003 | 441 | 1% | — | ||
44Cataloging & Classification QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.67Q3 | 0.24 0.25 down from 2003 | 178 | 2% | — | ||
45Technical Services QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.22 0.17 up from 2003 | 76 | 6% | — | ||
46Issues in Science and Technology LibrarianshipOAAssociation of College and Research Libraries · United States | 0.54Q3 | 0.26 0.07 down from 2003 | 123 | 100% | — | ||
47Interlending & Document SupplyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.49 0.24 up from 2003 | 248 | 4% | — | ||
48Serials ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.35 0.17 up from 2003 | 418 | 1% | — | ||
49Journal of Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery & Electronic ReserveTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.27 0.06 up from 2003 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
50New Review of Information NetworkingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.07 0.14 down from 2003 | 49 | 14% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Information Systems highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence188
- Information Systems81
- Computational Theory and Mathematics71
- Computer Networks and Communications63
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition61
- Computer Science Applications11
- Hardware and Architecture9
- Human-Computer Interaction9
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design8
- Signal Processing6
- Software3
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
36 additional Information Systems journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 81
- Window papers (baseline)
- 49,348 +105.5% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.70 +6.4% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 68 | 67 | 72 | 74 | 81 | 87 | 88 | 99 | 115 | 129 | 137 | 146 | 163 | 183 | 195 | 203 | 210 | 211 | 208 | 210 | 210 | 218 | 213 | 213 | 205 | 195 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 19,509 | 24,019 | 30,841 | 39,933 | 49,348 | 59,387 | 69,783 | 82,414 | 97,475 | 111,430 | 123,655 | 134,006 | 146,270 | 152,576 | 157,421 | 158,033 | 160,819 | 157,744 | 160,277 | 171,046 | 195,495 | 226,892 | 260,327 | 285,572 | 307,676 | 320,578 | |
| Median OJR | 0.542 | 0.654 | 0.71 | 0.63 | 0.70 | 0.69 | 0.86 | 0.94 | 1.082 | 1.081 | 1.12 | 1.07 | 1.02 | 0.96 | 0.80 | 0.82 | 0.75 | 0.648 | 0.637 | 0.544 | 0.57 | 0.551 | 0.548 | 0.51 | 0.66 | 0.641 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.