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Service Oriented Computing and Applications

Springer London · United Kingdom · Est. 1988

ISSN1863-2386eISSN1863-2394

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.375

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.677

Total Worksi

480

Total Citationsi

6,236

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.96

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

The aim of Service-Oriented Computing & Applications is to publish original and high quality research results on the service-oriented computing (SOC) paradigm, models and technologies that have significant contributions to the advancement of service oriented systems and their applications. The journal focuses on the issues and research results related to the development of service-oriented technology, including service infrastructures, theoretical foundations and their applications and experiences in service-oriented computing. Topics covered by the journal include, but are not limited to, the following subjects as they relate to service-oriented computing and applications: Foundations of Service-Oriented Computing, Intelligent Service Computing, Cloud Services and Big Data, Everything as a Service, Services and Humans, Security, Privacy, and Trust, and Service-Oriented Applications.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1988

Annual Volume~ 42 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications480

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer London

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1863-2386 / 1863-2394

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

432

2019

316

2020

139

2021

145

2022

181

2023

353

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Management Information SystemsQ2

Hardware and ArchitectureQ3

Information SystemsQ3

SoftwareQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Scopus Categories

Information SystemsHardware and ArchitectureSoftwareManagement Information Systems

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Service-Oriented Architecture and Web ServicesBusiness Process Modeling and AnalysisAdvanced Software Engineering MethodologiesSoftware System Performance and ReliabilityIoT and Edge/Fog ComputingCloud Computing and Resource ManagementDistributed systems and fault toleranceSemantic Web and OntologiesDistributed and Parallel Computing SystemsCaching and Content Delivery

Frequently asked questions about Service Oriented Computing and Applications

Is Service Oriented Computing and Applications a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Service Oriented Computing and Applications: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Service Oriented Computing and Applications?

Service Oriented Computing and Applications is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 2.96.

Is Service Oriented Computing and Applications indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Service Oriented Computing and Applications is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.