Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Information Systems journal rankings 2012
163 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Information Systems has 163 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2011 to 1.02, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.43. The top three are ACM Transactions on the Web, Enterprise Information Systems, and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 Intelligence339
- Information Systems163
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition111
- Computer Networks and Communications107
- Computational Theory and Mathematics93
- Human-Computer Interaction18
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Science Applications15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software3
163 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 12.38Q1 | 6.73 0.10 up from 2011 | 52 | 23% | — | ||
2Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.51Q1 | 10.14 4.40 up from 2011 | 82 | 15% | — | ||
3ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.43Q1 | 6.09 0.61 up from 2011 | 46 | 23% | — | ||
4Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.28Q1 | 3.62 0.66 down from 2011 | 85 | 30% | $2,290 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 7.62Q1 | 4.82 0.24 up from 2011 | 282 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
6Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.31Q1 | 5.10 1.96 up from 2011 | 45 | 21% | $3,190 | ||
7User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.98Q1 | 5.13 2.30 down from 2011 | 39 | 54% | $3,290 | ||
8Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 5.70Q1 | 2.26 0.34 down from 2011 | 107 | 21% | $2,990 | ||
9International Journal of Mobile and Blended LearningIGI Global · United States | 5.32Q1 | 1.85 1.02 down from 2011 | 58 | 5% | — | ||
10Annual Review of Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 5.08Q1 | 2.68 0.42 down from 2011 | 53 | — | — | ||
11Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 4.56 0.86 up from 2011 | 276 | 23% | $3,830 | ||
12Journal of Software Evolution and ProcessWiley · United States | 4.52Q1 | 2.04 0.47 up from 2011 | 75 | 12% | $4,480 | ||
13Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.41Q1 | 2.49 0.12 down from 2011 | 120 | 41% | $2,750 | ||
14IEEE Security & PrivacyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.41Q1 | 2.40 0.24 up from 2011 | 424 | 3% | $2,995 | ||
15Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.29Q1 | 2.34 0.42 up from 2011 | 153 | 8% | $3,630 | ||
16Library Resources and Technical ServicesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 4.16Q1 | 2.23 1.09 up from 2011 | 62 | 81% | — | ||
17ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.10Q1 | 2.60 1.40 down from 2011 | 41 | 13% | — | ||
18International Journal of Digital CurationOAUniversity of Edinburgh · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 1.91 0.29 up from 2011 | 94 | 100% | — | ||
19Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution Research and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 1.90 0.68 up from 2011 | 96 | 0% | — | ||
20Collection ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 2.12 0.96 up from 2011 | 100 | 10% | — | ||
21Software Quality JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.90Q1 | 2.20 1.00 up from 2011 | 99 | 32% | $3,290 | ||
22Information Management & Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 1.77 0.18 up from 2011 | 72 | 4% | — | ||
23Journal of Computer Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 2.10 0.81 down from 2011 | 114 | 26% | — | ||
24Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.57Q1 | 2.72 0.04 up from 2011 | 595 | 15% | $3,820 | ||
25IEEE SoftwareIEEE Computer Society · United States | 3.56Q1 | 1.85 0.13 down from 2011 | 440 | 1% | $2,995 | ||
26ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 3.49Q1 | 2.12 0.03 down from 2011 | 972 | 5% | $2,995 | ||
27Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 1.95 0.41 up from 2011 | 196 | 23% | — | ||
28International Journal of Information System Modeling and DesignOAIGI Global · United States | 3.25Q1 | 2.03 0.10 down from 2011 | 30 | 14% | — | ||
29International Journal of Web and Grid ServicesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 3.03 0.24 up from 2011 | 58 | 17% | — | ||
30Information Technology and LibrariesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 3.12Q1 | 1.82 0.67 up from 2011 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
31Journal of the American Society for Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 3.06Q1 | 2.78 0.56 up from 2011 | 801 | 21% | — | ||
32Software Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 2.57 0.85 up from 2011 | 229 | 24% | $4,650 | ||
33Cataloging & Classification QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.96Q1 | 0.73 0.06 up from 2011 | 168 | 8% | — | ||
34Distributed and Parallel DatabasesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.75Q1 | 3.15 1.46 up from 2011 | 49 | 28% | $3,290 | ||
35International Journal of Information SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.71Q1 | 2.25 0.10 up from 2011 | 78 | 38% | $3,690 | ||
36The International Journal of Environmental and Science EducationOAInternational Society of Educational Research · Türkiye | 2.65Q1 | 1.48 0.37 up from 2011 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
37Science of Computer ProgrammingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 1.79 0.11 up from 2011 | 259 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
38IT ProfessionalIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.59Q1 | 1.37 0.10 up from 2011 | 294 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
39VINEEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 1.55 0.29 up from 2011 | 77 | 12% | — | ||
40IET SoftwareOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 1.77 0.12 up from 2011 | 123 | 13% | $2,210 | ||
41Information Security Technical ReportElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 1.29 0.19 up from 2011 | 74 | 11% | — | ||
42International Journal of Web Services ResearchOAIGI Global · United States | 2.42Q2 | 1.21 0.19 down from 2011 | 56 | 5% | — | ||
43The Reference LibrarianTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.41Q2 | 1.39 0.33 up from 2011 | 124 | 5% | — | ||
44Journal of Web LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.34Q2 | 1.29 0.69 up from 2011 | 107 | 4% | — | ||
45Proceedings of the 2011 iConferencePublisher not listed | 2.34Q2 | 0.82no 2011 value | 170 | — | — | — | |
46Library Collections Acquisitions and Technical ServicesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.22Q2 | 0.61 0.01 up from 2011 | 155 | 4% | — | ||
47Journal of Information Technology Education Innovations in PracticeOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.22Q2 | 1.29 0.36 up from 2011 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
| 2.21Q2 | 1.47 0.52 up from 2011 | 43 | 88% | — | |||
49Journal of Electronic Resources LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.17Q2 | 0.44 0.24 down from 2011 | 82 | 3% | — | ||
50The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.05Q2 | 1.11 0.36 down from 2011 | 42 | 0% | $3,230 |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Information Systems highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence339
- Information Systems163
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition111
- Computer Networks and Communications107
- Computational Theory and Mathematics93
- Human-Computer Interaction18
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Science Applications15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software3
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
82 additional Information Systems journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 163
- Window papers (baseline)
- 146,270 +31.3% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.02 -6.1% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.