Journal of Information Science
Last updated ISSN 0165-5515
Journal of Information Science is published by SAGE Publishing in decision sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
Is your paper a fit?
The surest way to know is to compare your own abstract against what this journal has actually been publishing, rather than against its aims-and-scope page. Paste your abstract and Journal Hunt will tell you how close Journal of Information Science is — and show you journals like it.
What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Information Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Topic Modeling
- Web Data Mining and Analysis
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Library Science and Information Literacy
- Web visibility and informetrics
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0165-5515, 1741-6485 |
| Subject area | Decision Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,468 |
| Publishing since | 1979 |
| Journal website | jis.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
Journals like Journal of Information Science
Other established journals in decision sciences, if this one is not the right home for your paper: