Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Information Systems journal rankings 2018
208 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Information Systems has 208 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.64, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are ACM SIGIR Forum, Empirical Software Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 Intelligence433
- Information Systems208
- Computer Networks and Communications132
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computational Theory and Mathematics110
- Computer Science Applications24
- Human-Computer Interaction21
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
208 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1ACM SIGIR ForumAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.37Q1 | 11.17 8.55 up from 2017 | 110 | 24% | — | ||
2Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.66Q1 | 5.84 1.94 up from 2017 | 210 | 44% | $2,290 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 5.88Q1 | 5.70 0.66 up from 2017 | 271 | 37% | $2,645 | ||
4Journal of CybersecurityOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.11Q1 | 2.61 0.87 down from 2017 | 37 | 100% | $2,094 | ||
5ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.89Q1 | 4.15 0.17 up from 2017 | 56 | 44% | — | ||
6User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.80Q1 | 6.12 0.16 up from 2017 | 37 | 63% | $3,290 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.54Q1 | 4.23 0.04 up from 2017 | 358 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
8Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 2.74 0.13 down from 2017 | 87 | 24% | $2,990 | ||
9Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 4.01 0.77 down from 2017 | 412 | 41% | $3,830 | ||
10Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 4.34 0.33 up from 2017 | 647 | 37% | $3,820 | ||
11Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.82Q1 | 3.65 1.25 up from 2017 | 41 | 29% | $3,190 | ||
12ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.54Q1 | 4.77 0.03 down from 2017 | 94 | 41% | — | ||
13IEEE Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.47Q1 | 3.37 0.88 up from 2017 | 306 | 36% | — | ||
14International Journal of Cloud Applications and ComputingIGI Global · United States | 3.02Q1 | 3.45 1.75 up from 2017 | 66 | 3% | — | ||
15Human-centric Computing and Information SciencesSpringer Nature · South Korea | 2.88Q1 | 4.76 0.09 down from 2017 | 103 | 97% | $1,870 | ||
16Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 2.70 0.32 down from 2017 | 184 | 49% | $2,750 | ||
17IEEE SoftwareIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.80Q1 | 2.52 0.22 up from 2017 | 481 | 36% | $2,995 | ||
18The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.64Q1 | 2.00 0.06 up from 2017 | 55 | 27% | $3,230 | ||
19ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.54Q1 | 2.84 0.49 down from 2017 | 76 | 41% | — | ||
20International Journal of Mobile and Blended LearningIGI Global · United States | 2.54Q1 | 1.52 0.17 up from 2017 | 60 | 23% | — | ||
21Software Quality JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.52Q1 | 2.19 0.09 up from 2017 | 120 | 63% | $3,290 | ||
22Journal of Software Evolution and ProcessWiley · United States | 2.30Q1 | 2.16 0.19 up from 2017 | 185 | 28% | $4,480 | ||
23Journal of New Approaches in Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alicante · Spain | 2.30Q1 | 2.00 0.14 up from 2017 | 62 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
24Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 2.02 0.38 up from 2017 | 229 | 48% | — | ||
25Information Technology and LibrariesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.05 0.41 down from 2017 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of Information Technology Education Innovations in PracticeOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.14Q1 | 1.52 0.41 up from 2017 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
27LIBER Quarterly The Journal of the Association of European Research LibrariesOAUtrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 1.59 0.30 down from 2017 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
28Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 1.87 0.48 up from 2017 | 134 | 16% | $3,630 | ||
29ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.05Q1 | 2.54 0.78 up from 2017 | 960 | 32% | $2,995 | ||
30Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.71 1.21 up from 2017 | 136 | 19% | — | ||
31Software Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 2.70 0.49 up from 2017 | 201 | 30% | $4,650 | ||
32Data Science JournalOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 1.58 1.09 down from 2017 | 92 | 100% | $429 | ||
33Information and Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 1.35 0.24 down from 2017 | 95 | 31% | — | ||
34International Journal of Knowledge-Based DevelopmentInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 1.18 0.25 down from 2017 | 84 | 7% | — | ||
35IT ProfessionalIEEE Computer Society · United States | 1.79Q1 | 2.11 0.79 up from 2017 | 286 | 41% | $2,645 | ||
36Information Security Journal A Global PerspectiveTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.77Q1 | 3.00 1.12 up from 2017 | 66 | 20% | — | ||
37IEEE Security & PrivacyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.74Q1 | 1.62 0.09 up from 2017 | 341 | 31% | $2,995 | ||
38International Journal of Mobile Learning and OrganisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 1.03 0.46 down from 2017 | 82 | 2% | — | ||
39International Journal of Digital CurationOAUniversity of Edinburgh · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 0.98 0.42 down from 2017 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of Web LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.66Q1 | 1.17 0.42 up from 2017 | 59 | 8% | — | ||
41Journal of Software Engineering Research and DevelopmentOASpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 1.63Q1 | 1.83 0.23 up from 2017 | 30 | 100% | $1,085 | ||
42Journal of eScience LibrarianshipOAUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library · United States | 1.58Q1 | 0.63 0.66 down from 2017 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
43Technology Innovation Management ReviewOACarleton University · Canada | 1.52Q1 | 1.92 0.37 up from 2017 | 352 | 100% | — | ||
44IET SoftwareOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.46 0.22 down from 2017 | 90 | 27% | $2,210 | ||
45International Journal of Information SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 2.05 0.14 up from 2017 | 124 | 17% | $3,690 | ||
46Journal of Information Privacy and SecurityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.51Q1 | 0.72 0.91 down from 2017 | 46 | 33% | — | ||
47Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED)OAUniversity of Murcia · Spain | 1.47Q1 | 1.56 0.33 up from 2017 | 129 | 100% | — | ||
48Cataloging & Classification QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.44Q1 | 0.85 0.06 up from 2017 | 151 | 30% | — | ||
49Journal of Computer Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 1.12 0.01 up from 2017 | 452 | 19% | — | ||
50Digital Education ReviewOAUniversity of Barcelona · Spain | 1.38Q1 | 0.82 0.18 down from 2017 | 56 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Information Systems highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence433
- Information Systems208
- Computer Networks and Communications132
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computational Theory and Mathematics110
- Computer Science Applications24
- Human-Computer Interaction21
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
89 additional Information Systems journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 208
- Window papers (baseline)
- 160,277 +1.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.637 -22.1% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.