Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Information Systems journal rankings 2020
210 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Information Systems has 210 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.36. The top three are Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, Journal of Cybersecurity, and International Journal of Web and Grid Services.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 Intelligence459
- Information Systems210
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition131
- Computer Networks and Communications130
- Computational Theory and Mathematics112
- 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Journal of New Approaches in Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alicante · Spain | 5.82Q1 | 7.02 3.05 up from 2019 | 59 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
2Journal of CybersecurityOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 7.84 4.36 up from 2019 | 41 | 100% | $2,094 | ||
3International Journal of Web and Grid ServicesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 5.24Q1 | 16.45 9.84 up from 2019 | 105 | 10% | — | ||
4User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.95Q1 | 7.67 0.37 down from 2019 | 54 | 64% | $3,290 | ||
5Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 4.19 1.35 down from 2019 | 264 | 62% | $2,290 | ||
6International journal of education and development using information and communication technologyOAUniversity of the West Indies · Barbados | 3.83Q1 | 4.08 3.20 up from 2019 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
7The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 3.79Q1 | 6.11 2.97 up from 2019 | 56 | 10% | $3,230 | ||
8ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.45Q1 | 4.47 0.15 down from 2019 | 60 | 49% | — | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 3.29Q1 | 4.11 0.82 down from 2019 | 404 | 36% | $2,645 | ||
10IEEE Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.26Q1 | 4.33 0.11 down from 2019 | 183 | — | — | ||
11ACM SIGIR ForumAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.23Q1 | 1.34 8.14 down from 2019 | 150 | 15% | — | ||
12Human-centric Computing and Information SciencesSpringer Nature · South Korea | 3.14Q1 | 8.56 3.07 up from 2019 | 124 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
13International Journal of Mobile Learning and OrganisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 3.13 1.19 up from 2019 | 125 | 2% | — | ||
14Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 4.85 0.40 up from 2019 | 449 | 33% | $3,830 | ||
15Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 4.78 0.43 up from 2019 | 551 | 51% | $3,820 | ||
16Information and Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 2.54 0.33 up from 2019 | 116 | 18% | — | ||
17Postdigital Science and EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.66Q1 | 3.72 2.65 down from 2019 | 86 | 85% | $3,190 | ||
18IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.63Q1 | 4.41 0.91 up from 2019 | 297 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
19Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 3.63 0.79 up from 2019 | 252 | — | $2,750 | ||
20Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.58Q1 | 3.13 0.52 up from 2019 | 109 | 18% | $3,630 | ||
21ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.57Q1 | 4.42 1.14 up from 2019 | 146 | 25% | — | ||
22Technology Innovation Management ReviewOACarleton University · Canada | 2.50Q1 | 2.74 0.42 down from 2019 | 213 | 100% | — | ||
23International Journal of Cloud Applications and ComputingIGI Global · United States | 2.39Q1 | 4.11 0.79 up from 2019 | 71 | 15% | — | ||
24Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 4.26 0.30 up from 2019 | 196 | 19% | — | ||
25IEEE SoftwareIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.26Q1 | 2.77 0.50 down from 2019 | 498 | 66% | $2,995 | ||
26Journal of Computer Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 2.09 0.30 down from 2019 | 143 | 19% | — | ||
27The Journal of British Blockchain AssociationOAUnited Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 2.80 1.05 up from 2019 | 50 | 100% | $962 | ||
28ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.09Q1 | 3.95 1.56 up from 2019 | 73 | 28% | — | ||
29Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 2.24 0.71 down from 2019 | 50 | 42% | $3,190 | ||
30Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED)OAUniversity of Murcia · Spain | 1.97Q1 | 2.53 1.08 up from 2019 | 108 | 100% | — | ||
31ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 1.96Q1 | 1.95 1.26 down from 2019 | 916 | 72% | $2,995 | ||
32Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 2.35 0.14 up from 2019 | 73 | 48% | $2,990 | ||
33Software Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 3.17 0.05 up from 2019 | 266 | 28% | $4,650 | ||
34IT ProfessionalIEEE Computer Society · United States | 1.87Q1 | 2.26 0.78 down from 2019 | 310 | 32% | $2,645 | ||
35D-Lib MagazineOACorporation for National Research Initiatives · United States | 1.85Q1 | —no 2019 value | 36 | — | — | ||
36Journal of Software Evolution and ProcessWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.17 0.85 up from 2019 | 220 | 34% | $4,480 | ||
37Journal of Information Technology Education Innovations in PracticeOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.82 0.74 down from 2019 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
38Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.32 0.36 up from 2019 | 247 | 35% | — | ||
39Journal of Software Engineering Research and DevelopmentOASpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 1.80Q1 | 2.84 1.00 up from 2019 | 35 | 100% | $1,085 | ||
40Software Quality JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.68Q1 | 1.96 0.01 down from 2019 | 114 | 62% | $3,290 | ||
41Digital Education ReviewOAUniversity of Barcelona · Spain | 1.61Q1 | 1.71 0.05 down from 2019 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
42International Journal of Mobile and Blended LearningIGI Global · United States | 1.60Q1 | 1.76 0.43 up from 2019 | 67 | 5% | — | ||
43IEEE Security & PrivacyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.47 0.36 up from 2019 | 370 | 57% | $2,995 | ||
44International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)OAkassel university press · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 2.87 0.85 up from 2019 | 334 | 100% | $280 | ||
45Digital Policy Regulation and GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.83 1.02 up from 2019 | 108 | 18% | — | ||
46ComputersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.46Q1 | 3.24 0.42 up from 2019 | 186 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
47Security and PrivacyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 2.96 1.50 up from 2019 | 81 | 39% | $2,940 | ||
48LIBER Quarterly The Journal of the Association of European Research LibrariesOAUtrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) · Netherlands | 1.44Q1 | 1.45 0.45 up from 2019 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
49Computer Fraud & SecurityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 1.61 0.75 up from 2019 | 328 | 25% | — | ||
50International Journal of Information SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.40Q1 | 2.76 0.50 up from 2019 | 122 | 34% | $3,690 |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Information Systems highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence459
- Information Systems210
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition131
- Computer Networks and Communications130
- Computational Theory and Mathematics112
- Human-Computer Interaction24
- Computer Science Applications23
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
91 additional Information Systems journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 210
- Window papers (baseline)
- 195,495 +23.9% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.57 -12.8% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.