Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Information Systems journal rankings 2017
211 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Information Systems has 211 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2016 to 0.65, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and Empirical Software Engineering.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 Intelligence422
- Information Systems211
- Computer Networks and Communications131
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics107
- Computer Science Applications25
- Human-Computer Interaction19
- Hardware and Architecture16
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
211 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.55Q1 | 4.19 0.87 down from 2016 | 339 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.41Q1 | 5.05 0.26 up from 2016 | 240 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
3Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.28Q1 | 3.90 0.11 down from 2016 | 181 | 47% | $2,290 | ||
4ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.10Q1 | 3.97 0.43 down from 2016 | 82 | 33% | — | ||
5User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.77Q1 | 5.96 0.35 up from 2016 | 32 | 54% | $3,290 | ||
6Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.13Q1 | 4.78 0.29 up from 2016 | 379 | 31% | $3,830 | ||
7Information Management & Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.71Q1 | —no 2016 value | 30 | — | — | ||
8Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.10Q1 | 4.01 0.36 up from 2016 | 644 | 32% | $3,820 | ||
9IEEE Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.90Q1 | 2.49 0.34 down from 2016 | 266 | 3% | — | ||
10ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.85Q1 | 3.33 0.22 up from 2016 | 62 | 22% | — | ||
11Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 2.87 0.35 up from 2016 | 74 | 26% | $2,990 | ||
12ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.60Q1 | 4.80 2.20 up from 2016 | 77 | 37% | — | ||
13Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.47Q1 | 2.40 0.11 up from 2016 | 56 | 29% | $3,190 | ||
14International Journal of Mobile Learning and OrganisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 1.49 0.51 down from 2016 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
15Human-centric Computing and Information SciencesSpringer Nature · South Korea | 3.22Q1 | 4.85 0.98 up from 2016 | 77 | 98% | $1,870 | ||
16Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 3.03 0.10 down from 2016 | 183 | 49% | $2,750 | ||
17VINEEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 2.63 1.42 up from 2016 | 56 | — | — | ||
18IEEE SoftwareIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.97Q1 | 2.30 0.14 up from 2016 | 390 | 15% | $2,995 | ||
19Journal of Software Evolution and ProcessWiley · United States | 2.79Q1 | 1.97 0.41 up from 2016 | 157 | 39% | $4,480 | ||
20Software Quality JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.66Q1 | 2.10 0.40 up from 2016 | 118 | 51% | $3,290 | ||
21Journal of eScience LibrarianshipOAUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library · United States | 2.57Q1 | 1.29 0.17 down from 2016 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
22Information and Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 1.59 0.49 up from 2016 | 61 | 26% | — | ||
23International Journal of Mobile and Blended LearningIGI Global · United States | 2.48Q1 | 1.36 0.77 up from 2016 | 60 | 9% | — | ||
24International Journal of Digital CurationOAUniversity of Edinburgh · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 1.40 0.14 up from 2016 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
25Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.34Q1 | 1.39 1.47 down from 2016 | 127 | 23% | $3,630 | ||
26ACM SIGIR ForumAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.32Q1 | 2.62 0.29 up from 2016 | 78 | 17% | — | ||
27Information Technology and LibrariesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 2.23Q1 | 1.46 0.29 down from 2016 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
28IEEE Security & PrivacyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.18Q1 | 1.53 0.02 down from 2016 | 333 | 14% | $2,995 | ||
| 2.16Q1 | 0.68 0.48 down from 2016 | 30 | 100% | — | |||
30International Journal of Grid and Utility ComputingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 1.94 0.57 down from 2016 | 90 | 2% | — | ||
31Journal of New Approaches in Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alicante · Spain | 2.09Q1 | 1.86 0.65 up from 2016 | 57 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
32International Journal of Knowledge-Based DevelopmentInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 1.43 0.16 up from 2016 | 67 | 18% | — | ||
33LIBER Quarterly The Journal of the Association of European Research LibrariesOAUtrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 1.89 0.26 up from 2016 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
34The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.00Q1 | 1.94 0.10 up from 2016 | 49 | 4% | $3,230 | ||
35Software Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 2.22 0.49 up from 2016 | 185 | 31% | $4,650 | ||
36International Journal of Information Technology and Web EngineeringOAIGI Global · United States | 1.93Q1 | 2.55 1.57 up from 2016 | 53 | 8% | — | ||
37Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.64 0.81 down from 2016 | 190 | 35% | — | ||
38International Journal of Information SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.88Q1 | 1.90 0.10 down from 2016 | 129 | 26% | $3,690 | ||
39IET SoftwareOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 1.68 0.26 up from 2016 | 59 | 9% | $2,210 | ||
40Data Science JournalOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 2.67 1.26 up from 2016 | 75 | 100% | $429 | ||
41Journal of Information Privacy and SecurityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.71Q1 | 1.63 0.57 up from 2016 | 44 | 21% | — | ||
42International Journal of Web and Grid ServicesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 1.15 0.99 down from 2016 | 64 | 12% | — | ||
43Journal of Software Engineering Research and DevelopmentOASpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 1.67Q1 | 1.60 0.27 up from 2016 | 32 | 100% | $1,085 | ||
44Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 1.50 0.30 up from 2016 | 148 | 41% | — | ||
45Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED)OAUniversity of Murcia · Spain | 1.67Q1 | 1.23 0.96 up from 2016 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
46ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 1.65Q1 | 1.76 0.38 up from 2016 | 932 | 12% | $2,995 | ||
47Journal of Computer Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 1.11 1.02 down from 2016 | 451 | 14% | — | ||
48Journal of Information Technology Education Innovations in PracticeOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 1.62Q1 | 1.11 0.23 up from 2016 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
49International Journal of Information System Modeling and DesignOAIGI Global · United States | 1.61Q1 | 0.78 0.25 down from 2016 | 50 | 4% | — | ||
50D-Lib MagazineOACorporation for National Research Initiatives · United States | 1.54Q1 | 1.65 0.48 up from 2016 | 137 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Information Systems highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence422
- Information Systems211
- Computer Networks and Communications131
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics107
- Computer Science Applications25
- Human-Computer Interaction19
- Hardware and Architecture16
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
76 additional Information Systems journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 211
- Window papers (baseline)
- 157,744 +0.2% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.648 -18.7% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.