Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Information Systems journal rankings 2009
129 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Information Systems has 129 ranked journals in 2009. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.08 against 1.00, unchanged on 2008. A journal needs OJR 2.47 to reach Q1. The top three are ACM Transactions on the Web, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 Intelligence280
- Information Systems129
- Computer Networks and Communications98
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition94
- Computational Theory and Mathematics79
- Hardware and Architecture21
- Computer Science Applications15
- Human-Computer Interaction15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design9
- Signal Processing9
- Software5
129 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 18.61Q1 | 9.06 0.13 up from 2008 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
2ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 14.04Q1 | 6.75 1.36 down from 2008 | 48 | 26% | — | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.73Q1 | 4.30 0.03 up from 2008 | 320 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
4ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.31Q1 | 5.39 0.52 up from 2008 | 63 | 0% | — | ||
5Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.05Q1 | 2.81 0.53 up from 2008 | 100 | 17% | $2,290 | ||
6Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.47Q1 | 6.30 0.43 up from 2008 | 63 | — | — | ||
7International Journal of Web Services ResearchOAIGI Global · United States | 6.02Q1 | 3.10 0.87 up from 2008 | 63 | 5% | — | ||
8User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.94Q1 | 5.18 2.10 up from 2008 | 53 | 33% | $3,290 | ||
9Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.24Q1 | 3.26 0.87 up from 2008 | 276 | 15% | $3,830 | ||
10Software Quality JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.14Q1 | 1.62 0.13 up from 2008 | 80 | 32% | $3,290 | ||
11ACM SIGIR ForumAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.95Q1 | 2.84 0.15 up from 2008 | 94 | 6% | — | ||
12IEEE SoftwareIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.67Q1 | 1.73 0.21 down from 2008 | 497 | 9% | $2,995 | ||
13International Journal of Digital CurationOAUniversity of Edinburgh · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 1.64no 2008 value | 61 | 100% | — | — | |
14Information Technology and LibrariesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 4.25Q1 | 1.77 0.67 down from 2008 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
15International Journal of Information SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.22Q1 | 2.86 0.82 up from 2008 | 74 | 13% | $3,690 | ||
16D-Lib MagazineOACorporation for National Research Initiatives · United States | 3.90Q1 | 1.57 0.28 down from 2008 | 168 | 100% | — | ||
17ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 3.76Q1 | 2.06 0.09 up from 2008 | 1,116 | 5% | $2,995 | ||
18Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.67Q1 | 2.46 0.46 up from 2008 | 458 | 13% | $3,820 | ||
19Science of Computer ProgrammingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.63Q1 | 3.33 0.49 up from 2008 | 201 | 97% | $2,600 | ||
20Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 2.59 3.16 down from 2008 | 49 | 5% | — | ||
21Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 2.25 1.00 up from 2008 | 145 | 45% | $2,750 | ||
22WEISPublisher not listed | 3.31Q1 | 0.50 0.54 down from 2008 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
23Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 1.06 0.48 down from 2008 | 76 | 11% | $2,990 | ||
24International Journal of Web Engineering and TechnologyInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 0.95 1.17 down from 2008 | 50 | 10% | — | ||
25Annual Review of Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 3.28Q1 | 1.87 0.24 up from 2008 | 66 | 5% | — | ||
26Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 1.81 0.27 up from 2008 | 201 | 12% | — | ||
27IEEE Security & PrivacyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.17Q1 | 1.65 0.51 up from 2008 | 420 | 6% | $2,995 | ||
28Journal of Computer Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 2.05 0.41 up from 2008 | 132 | 38% | — | ||
29Software Process Improvement and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 0.81 0.74 down from 2008 | 160 | 9% | — | ||
30Journal of the American Society for Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 2.89Q1 | 2.17 0.19 up from 2008 | 829 | 16% | — | ||
31IET SoftwareOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 1.42 0.46 down from 2008 | 65 | 12% | $2,210 | ||
32Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.83Q1 | 1.97 0.43 down from 2008 | 54 | 35% | $3,190 | ||
33Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution Research and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 0.57 0.02 down from 2008 | 189 | 9% | — | ||
34Distributed and Parallel DatabasesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.47Q2 | 1.80 0.14 down from 2008 | 45 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
35The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.46Q2 | 1.23 0.03 down from 2008 | 43 | 6% | $3,230 | ||
36Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.41Q2 | 2.18 0.55 up from 2008 | 33 | — | — | ||
37Library Resources and Technical ServicesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 2.38Q2 | 0.85 0.20 up from 2008 | 75 | 88% | — | ||
38International Journal of Mobile Learning and OrganisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.38Q2 | 1.84 0.99 down from 2008 | 49 | 3% | — | ||
39Information Management & Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.23Q2 | 1.52 0.56 up from 2008 | 98 | 0% | — | ||
40Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q2 | 1.50 0.62 up from 2008 | 173 | 6% | $3,630 | ||
41Proceedings/Proceedings - Conference on Software MaintenanceInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.09Q2 | 1.68 0.15 down from 2008 | 87 | — | — | ||
42IT ProfessionalIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.07Q2 | 1.12 0.29 up from 2008 | 330 | 1% | $2,645 | ||
43The Reference LibrarianTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.70Q2 | 0.75 0.42 up from 2008 | 104 | 6% | — | ||
44Journal of Digital Forensic PracticeTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.67Q2 | 0.74 0.28 up from 2008 | 56 | 33% | — | ||
45International Journal of Web and Grid ServicesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 0.77 0.72 down from 2008 | 76 | 11% | — | ||
46Information Security Technical ReportElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.63Q2 | 1.41 0.41 up from 2008 | 88 | 3% | — | ||
47ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering NotesAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.63Q2 | 0.90 0.29 down from 2008 | 272 | 1% | — | ||
48QueueAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.57Q2 | 1.39 0.73 up from 2008 | 234 | 74% | — | ||
49International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge EngineeringWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.54Q2 | 0.68 0.44 down from 2008 | 122 | 6% | — | ||
50Collection BuildingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 0.53 0.03 down from 2008 | 110 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Information Systems highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence280
- Information Systems129
- Computer Networks and Communications98
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition94
- Computational Theory and Mathematics79
- Hardware and Architecture21
- Computer Science Applications15
- Human-Computer Interaction15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design9
- Signal Processing9
- Software5
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
64 additional Information Systems journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 129
- Window papers (baseline)
- 111,430 +59.7% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.081 +25.3% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.