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Information Processing and Management

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1972

ISSN1873-5371

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

/ 100

High Trust

PubScope credibility score from verifiable indexing & ethics signals

Score Breakdown

◆ WoS flagship (SCIE/SSCI/AHCI)78

✓ Corroboration (2 more)+12

Total90

Level data: Norwegian Register (HK-dir), NLOD 2.0. · Third-party records · how this is calculated · Report an error →

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

Publication speed: not measurable

publisher doesn’t disclose per-article submission dates — we never estimate

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

SJR Scorei

1.845

H-Indexi

185

CiteScore

View ↗

Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIPi

2.906

Total Worksi

6,446

Total Citationsi

225,037

2yr Mean Citednessi

5.87

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Computer Science, Information Systems; Information Science & Library Science; Computer Science Applications; Information Systems; Library and Information Sciences; Management Science and Operations Research; Media Technology.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1972

Annual Volume~ 389 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications6,446

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

Review Time—

Acceptance Rate—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/12 · 50%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1873-5371

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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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APC fees clearly disclosed?

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

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

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

207

13k

2019

237

14k

2020

283

15k

2021

317

11k

2022

315

7.4k

2023

376

5.5k

2024

476

2.2k

2025

388

129

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.

Computer Science ApplicationsQ1

Information SystemsQ1

Library and Information SciencesQ1

Management Science and Operations ResearchQ1

Media TechnologyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Information SystemsInformation Science & Library Science

Scopus Categories

Library and Information SciencesInformation SystemsComputer Science ApplicationsManagement Science and Operations ResearchMedia Technology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Topic ModelingInformation Retrieval and Search BehaviorAdvanced Text Analysis TechniquesNatural Language Processing TechniquesSemantic Web and OntologiesRecommender Systems and TechniquesWeb Data Mining and AnalysisText and Document Classification TechnologiesComplex Network Analysis TechniquesAdvanced Graph Neural Networks

Frequently asked questions about Information Processing and Management

Is Information Processing and Management a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Information Processing and Management: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Its PubScope Trust Score is 90/100. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Information Processing and Management?

Information Processing and Management 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 5.87.

Is Information Processing and Management indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Information Processing and Management is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.