Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Information Systems journal rankings 2023
213 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Information Systems has 213 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Journal of Applied Science and Technology Trends, Blockchain Research and Applications, and Postdigital Science and Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 Intelligence483
- Information Systems213
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computer Networks and Communications121
- Computational Theory and Mathematics115
- Computer Science Applications25
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Hardware and Architecture10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
213 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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| 7.28Q1 | 18.38 3.70 up from 2022 | 63 | 100% | — | |||
2Blockchain Research and ApplicationsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.74Q1 | 10.78 0.92 up from 2022 | 82 | 100% | $1,600 | ||
3Postdigital Science and EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 5.54Q1 | 6.16 5.04 down from 2022 | 273 | 74% | $3,190 | ||
4Journal of New Approaches in Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alicante · Spain | 5.20Q1 | 9.78 2.30 up from 2022 | 60 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
5Journal of CybersecurityOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 6.44 1.28 up from 2022 | 66 | 100% | $2,094 | ||
6The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 3.81Q1 | 8.21 2.32 up from 2022 | 37 | 20% | $3,230 | ||
7Frontiers in BlockchainOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 3.08Q1 | 3.71 1.32 down from 2022 | 133 | 100% | $1,418 | ||
8Human-centric Computing and Information SciencesSpringer Nature · South Korea | 3.02Q1 | —no 2022 value | 53 | — | $1,870 | ||
9ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.84Q1 | 5.97 0.85 up from 2022 | 268 | 85% | — | ||
102021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)Publisher not listed | 2.76Q1 | 1.84 0.10 up from 2022 | 143 | — | — | ||
11Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.68Q1 | 4.50 0.42 down from 2022 | 438 | 54% | $2,290 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.64Q1 | 5.08 0.51 up from 2022 | 484 | 36% | $2,645 | ||
13Journal of Banking and Financial TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 2.63Q1 | 7.10 3.72 up from 2022 | 37 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
14User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.63Q1 | 4.57 0.45 down from 2022 | 86 | 89% | $3,290 | ||
15Digital Education ReviewOAUniversity of Barcelona · Spain | 2.60Q1 | 2.29 0.64 down from 2022 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
16Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 5.93 0.26 up from 2022 | 455 | 47% | $3,830 | ||
17Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 5.43 0.69 up from 2022 | 546 | 52% | $3,820 | ||
18Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 6.52 0.81 up from 2022 | 180 | 21% | — | ||
19Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED)OAUniversity of Murcia · Spain | 2.33Q1 | 4.39 0.13 up from 2022 | 99 | 100% | — | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Technology and SocietyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.28Q1 | 3.96 0.62 down from 2022 | 98 | 66% | $2,645 | ||
21Journal of Cybersecurity and PrivacyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.22Q1 | 5.55 1.39 up from 2022 | 84 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
22Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 4.13 0.70 up from 2022 | 120 | 29% | $3,630 | ||
23Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 3.61 0.52 up from 2022 | 69 | 71% | $2,990 | ||
24International Cybersecurity Law ReviewSpringer Nature · Germany | 2.10Q1 | 2.29 0.91 up from 2022 | 64 | 28% | $3,290 | ||
25Digital Policy Regulation and GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 4.44 1.87 up from 2022 | 101 | 20% | — | ||
26ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.06Q1 | 5.41 0.42 down from 2022 | 298 | 91% | — | ||
27Journal of Computer Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 3.60 0.06 down from 2022 | 208 | 20% | — | ||
28Information and Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 3.30 0.61 up from 2022 | 107 | 32% | — | ||
29IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.92Q1 | 4.32 0.45 up from 2022 | 376 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
30Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 3.11 0.12 up from 2022 | 280 | 50% | — | ||
31Data Science JournalOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.30 1.18 down from 2022 | 108 | 100% | $429 | ||
32International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)OAkassel university press · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 4.32 0.02 up from 2022 | 902 | 100% | $280 | ||
33ComputersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.73Q1 | 5.08 0.47 up from 2022 | 462 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
34International Journal of Modern Education and Computer ScienceOAHong Kong SAR China | 1.69Q1 | 3.73 0.10 down from 2022 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
35Revista Interuniversitaria de Investigación en Tecnología EducativaOAEditum, Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia · Spain | 1.68Q1 | 3.14 0.96 up from 2022 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
36IJERI International Journal of Educational Research and InnovationOAPablo de Olavide University · Spain | 1.67Q1 | 1.55 2.78 down from 2022 | 129 | 100% | — | ||
37International Journal of Information SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 4.37 0.96 up from 2022 | 169 | 36% | $3,690 | ||
38Digital Library PerspectivesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 2.17 0.98 down from 2022 | 104 | 28% | — | ||
39HighTech and Innovation JournalOAItaly | 1.58Q1 | 5.46 1.93 up from 2022 | 99 | 100% | $523 | ||
40Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 3.23 0.63 down from 2022 | 99 | 31% | $3,190 | ||
41Forensic Science International Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 3.18 0.10 up from 2022 | 303 | 59% | $3,100 | ||
42ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.52Q1 | 3.78 0.67 up from 2022 | 74 | 89% | — | ||
43Digital FinanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.49Q1 | 1.88 0.56 down from 2022 | 50 | 39% | $3,390 | ||
44Technology Innovation Management ReviewOACarleton University · Canada | 1.48Q1 | 2.88 0.18 down from 2022 | 111 | — | — | ||
45Information Technology and LibrariesOAAmerican Library Association · United States | 1.42Q1 | 2.25 0.09 up from 2022 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
46International Journal of Cloud Applications and ComputingIGI Global · United States | 1.35Q1 | 3.05 1.03 down from 2022 | 119 | 83% | — | ||
47Software Quality JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.34Q1 | 2.87 0.36 up from 2022 | 115 | 46% | $3,290 | ||
48Journal of Software Evolution and ProcessWiley · United States | 1.33Q1 | 2.52 0.54 down from 2022 | 252 | 60% | $4,480 | ||
49Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Forensic ScienceWiley · United States | 1.31Q1 | 2.88 0.60 up from 2022 | 93 | 72% | $3,460 | ||
50Library Hi Tech NewsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 2.10 0.33 down from 2022 | 144 | 18% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Information Systems highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence483
- Information Systems213
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computer Networks and Communications121
- Computational Theory and Mathematics115
- Computer Science Applications25
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Hardware and Architecture10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
87 additional Information Systems journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 213
- Window papers (baseline)
- 285,572 +46.1% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.51 -9.4% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.