Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Information Systems journal rankings 2016
210 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Information Systems has 210 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2015 to 0.75, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Empirical Software Engineering, and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 Intelligence405
- Information Systems210
- Computer Networks and Communications129
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics103
- Computer Science Applications22
- Human-Computer Interaction19
- Hardware and Architecture15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
210 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.91Q1 | 5.05 2.64 down from 2015 | 270 | 30% | $2,645 | ||
2Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.70Q1 | 4.02 0.99 up from 2015 | 166 | 34% | $2,290 | ||
3ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.53Q1 | 4.40 0.69 down from 2015 | 100 | 35% | — | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.45Q1 | 4.79 0.40 down from 2015 | 231 | 35% | $2,645 | ||
5Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.37Q1 | 4.49 0.58 up from 2015 | 347 | 13% | $3,830 | ||
6Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.16Q1 | 2.86 0.54 up from 2015 | 118 | 9% | $3,630 | ||
7Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 3.13 0.44 down from 2015 | 185 | 54% | $2,750 | ||
8IEEE Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.98Q1 | 2.83 0.82 up from 2015 | 151 | 4% | — | ||
9ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.80Q1 | 3.10 0.14 down from 2015 | 69 | 30% | — | ||
10Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 2.45 0.22 up from 2015 | 192 | 27% | — | ||
11Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.33Q1 | 3.65 0.30 up from 2015 | 578 | 32% | $3,820 | ||
12Information Management & Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.30Q1 | 2.83 1.30 up from 2015 | 56 | — | — | ||
13Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 2.52 0.39 up from 2015 | 80 | 34% | $2,990 | ||
14Human-centric Computing and Information SciencesSpringer Nature · South Korea | 3.46Q1 | 3.87 3.26 down from 2015 | 74 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
15Journal of Computer Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 2.13 0.14 up from 2015 | 169 | 3% | — | ||
16Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.27Q1 | 2.29 0.21 down from 2015 | 57 | 26% | $3,190 | ||
17IEEE SoftwareIEEE Computer Society · United States | 3.02Q1 | 2.16 0.10 down from 2015 | 375 | 9% | $2,995 | ||
18Journal of the American Society for Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 2.96Q1 | 0.13 3.12 down from 2015 | 188 | 0% | — | ||
19Journal of Software Evolution and ProcessWiley · United States | 2.86Q1 | 1.57no change | 149 | 28% | $4,480 | ||
20International Journal of Web and Grid ServicesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 2.13 0.19 up from 2015 | 57 | 4% | — | ||
21Information and Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 1.10no 2015 value | 30 | 16% | — | — | |
| 2.80Q1 | 1.17 1.03 down from 2015 | 33 | 100% | — | |||
23Software Quality JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.69Q1 | 1.70 0.11 down from 2015 | 101 | 35% | $3,290 | ||
24ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.57Q1 | 2.59 0.05 down from 2015 | 64 | 28% | — | ||
25Information Technology and LibrariesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 2.57Q1 | 1.75 0.52 up from 2015 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
26International Journal of Digital CurationOAUniversity of Edinburgh · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 1.27 0.37 down from 2015 | 111 | 100% | — | ||
27International Journal of Information SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.54Q1 | 2.00 0.18 down from 2015 | 124 | 19% | $3,690 | ||
28The International Journal of Environmental and Science EducationOAInternational Society of Educational Research · Türkiye | 2.52Q1 | 2.66 1.16 up from 2015 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
29IEEE Security & PrivacyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.49Q1 | 1.55 0.13 down from 2015 | 353 | 14% | $2,995 | ||
30VINEEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 1.21 0.52 down from 2015 | 79 | — | — | ||
31International Journal of Mobile Learning and OrganisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 2.00 0.15 down from 2015 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
32Journal of eScience LibrarianshipOAUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library · United States | 2.27Q1 | 1.46 0.22 down from 2015 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
33International Journal of Grid and Utility ComputingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 2.51 1.32 up from 2015 | 90 | 3% | — | ||
34International Journal of Mobile and Blended LearningIGI Global · United States | 2.15Q1 | 0.58 0.52 down from 2015 | 55 | 13% | — | ||
35The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.09Q1 | 1.84 0.39 up from 2015 | 50 | 0% | $3,230 | ||
36Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 1.20 0.99 down from 2015 | 140 | 17% | — | ||
37International Journal of Cloud ComputingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 1.19 0.02 up from 2015 | 53 | 4% | — | ||
38International Journal of Cloud Applications and ComputingIGI Global · United States | 1.94Q1 | 1.20 0.53 up from 2015 | 62 | 4% | — | ||
39Distributed and Parallel DatabasesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 1.76 0.08 down from 2015 | 63 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
40ACM SIGIR ForumAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.86Q1 | 2.32 1.44 up from 2015 | 58 | 37% | — | ||
41Journal of Web LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.31 0.42 up from 2015 | 67 | 9% | — | ||
42ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 1.81Q1 | 1.38 0.20 down from 2015 | 928 | 13% | $2,995 | ||
43Software Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.72 0.44 up from 2015 | 189 | 41% | $4,650 | ||
44IT ProfessionalIEEE Computer Society · United States | 1.74Q1 | 1.05 0.77 down from 2015 | 230 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
45The Reference LibrarianTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.67Q1 | 0.97 0.29 up from 2015 | 90 | 7% | — | ||
46網際網路技術學刊Taiwan Academic Network · Taiwan | 1.65Q1 | 2.37 1.74 up from 2015 | 312 | 0% | — | ||
47Science of Computer ProgrammingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 1.32 0.13 down from 2015 | 451 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
48Journal of New Approaches in Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alicante · Spain | 1.57Q1 | 1.21 0.49 up from 2015 | 49 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
49Library Resources and Technical ServicesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 1.51Q1 | 0.77 0.14 up from 2015 | 79 | 91% | — | ||
50Journal of Information Technology Education Innovations in PracticeOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 1.50Q1 | 0.88 0.09 down from 2015 | 46 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Information Systems highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence405
- Information Systems210
- Computer Networks and Communications129
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics103
- Computer Science Applications22
- Human-Computer Interaction19
- Hardware and Architecture15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
79 additional Information Systems journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 210
- Window papers (baseline)
- 160,819 +5.4% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.75 -22.2% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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 |
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| 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.