Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Information Systems journal rankings 2019
210 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Information Systems has 210 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2018 to 0.54, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Empirical Software Engineering, ACM SIGIR Forum, and User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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 Intelligence448
- Information Systems210
- Computer Networks and Communications137
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition131
- Computational Theory and Mathematics113
- Human-Computer Interaction24
- Computer Science Applications23
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.38Q1 | 5.54 0.29 down from 2018 | 230 | 48% | $2,290 | ||
2ACM SIGIR ForumAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.98Q1 | 9.48 1.69 down from 2018 | 135 | 25% | — | ||
3User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.91Q1 | 8.04 1.92 up from 2018 | 39 | 58% | $3,290 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.87Q1 | 4.93 0.78 down from 2018 | 323 | 41% | $2,645 | ||
5Journal of CybersecurityOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 3.48 0.87 up from 2018 | 37 | 100% | $2,094 | ||
6ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.99Q1 | 4.61 0.46 up from 2018 | 53 | 41% | — | ||
7IEEE Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.82Q1 | 4.44 1.07 up from 2018 | 298 | 0% | — | ||
8International Journal of Web and Grid ServicesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 6.61 5.88 up from 2018 | 106 | 4% | — | ||
9Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 4.45 0.44 up from 2018 | 446 | 37% | $3,830 | ||
10Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.33Q1 | 4.35 0.01 up from 2018 | 620 | 39% | $3,820 | ||
11Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 2.21 0.53 down from 2018 | 80 | 48% | $2,990 | ||
12Journal of New Approaches in Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alicante · Spain | 3.21Q1 | 3.97 1.97 up from 2018 | 63 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.19Q1 | 3.51 0.72 down from 2018 | 284 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
14ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.96Q1 | 3.27 1.49 down from 2018 | 130 | 36% | — | ||
15Human-centric Computing and Information SciencesSpringer Nature · South Korea | 2.91Q1 | 5.49 0.73 up from 2018 | 106 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
16Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 2.94 0.70 down from 2018 | 54 | 35% | $3,190 | ||
17IEEE SoftwareIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.71Q1 | 3.27 0.75 up from 2018 | 469 | 66% | $2,995 | ||
18International Journal of Mobile Learning and OrganisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 1.94 0.91 up from 2018 | 113 | 5% | — | ||
19Journal of Information Technology Education Innovations in PracticeOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.61Q1 | 2.56 1.04 up from 2018 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
20Journal of Information Systems Engineering & ManagementOALectito Journals | 2.60Q1 | 4.32 3.54 up from 2018 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
21The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.59Q1 | 3.14 1.14 up from 2018 | 60 | 19% | $3,230 | ||
22Information and Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 2.21 0.85 up from 2018 | 99 | 19% | — | ||
23Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.40Q1 | 2.60 0.73 up from 2018 | 119 | 15% | $3,630 | ||
24ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.25Q1 | 3.22 0.68 up from 2018 | 936 | 81% | $2,995 | ||
25International Journal of Mobile and Blended LearningIGI Global · United States | 2.13Q1 | 1.33 0.20 down from 2018 | 67 | 14% | — | ||
26International Journal of Cloud Applications and ComputingIGI Global · United States | 2.12Q1 | 3.32 0.13 down from 2018 | 71 | 15% | — | ||
27Information Security Journal A Global PerspectiveTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.11Q1 | 2.63 0.37 down from 2018 | 65 | 8% | — | ||
28Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 2.84 0.14 up from 2018 | 211 | 52% | $2,750 | ||
29Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 3.96 1.25 up from 2018 | 146 | 20% | — | ||
30IT ProfessionalIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.03Q1 | 3.04 0.93 up from 2018 | 307 | 55% | $2,645 | ||
31Software Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.12 0.42 up from 2018 | 244 | 32% | $4,650 | ||
32Technology Innovation Management ReviewOACarleton University · Canada | 1.97Q1 | 3.16 1.24 up from 2018 | 278 | 100% | — | ||
33Software Quality JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.96Q1 | 1.97 0.22 down from 2018 | 114 | 39% | $3,290 | ||
34ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.87Q1 | 2.39 0.45 down from 2018 | 79 | 29% | — | ||
35Journal of Software Evolution and ProcessWiley · United States | 1.87Q1 | 2.33 0.16 up from 2018 | 202 | 35% | $4,480 | ||
36Journal of Software Engineering Research and DevelopmentOASpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 1.83Q1 | 1.84 0.01 up from 2018 | 33 | 100% | $1,085 | ||
37IEEE Security & PrivacyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.77Q1 | 2.11 0.49 up from 2018 | 337 | 72% | $2,995 | ||
38Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED)OAUniversity of Murcia · Spain | 1.74Q1 | 1.45 0.11 down from 2018 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
39Digital Education ReviewOAUniversity of Barcelona · Spain | 1.73Q1 | 1.76 0.93 up from 2018 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
40Information Services & UseOAIOS Press · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 2.53 1.20 up from 2018 | 83 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
41LIBER Quarterly The Journal of the Association of European Research LibrariesOAUtrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 1.00 0.59 down from 2018 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 1.96 0.06 down from 2018 | 222 | 43% | — | ||
43IET SoftwareOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 1.89 0.43 up from 2018 | 141 | 42% | $2,210 | ||
44Collection ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 1.04 0.48 up from 2018 | 71 | 32% | — | ||
45ComputersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.40Q1 | 2.83 0.23 up from 2018 | 130 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
46International Journal of Information SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 2.26 0.22 up from 2018 | 110 | 34% | $3,690 | ||
47QueueAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.39Q1 | 0.85 0.91 down from 2018 | 125 | 69% | — | ||
48Digital Policy Regulation and GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.80 0.70 up from 2018 | 76 | 21% | — | ||
49International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)OAkassel university press · Germany | 1.29Q1 | 2.02 0.54 up from 2018 | 229 | 100% | $280 | ||
50Data Science JournalOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 1.59 0.01 up from 2018 | 101 | 100% | $429 |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Information Systems highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence448
- Information Systems210
- Computer Networks and Communications137
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition131
- Computational Theory and Mathematics113
- Human-Computer Interaction24
- Computer Science Applications23
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 210
- Window papers (baseline)
- 171,046 +6.4% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.544 -27.2% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.