The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus1 and the Social Sciences Citation Index.2 According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 3.253, ranking it 20th out of 105 journals in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications",3 2nd out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary",4 and 14th out of 88 journals in the category "Information Science & Library Science".5
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"Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2017-07-05. http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ ↩
"Journals Ranked by Impact: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017. /wiki/Journal_Citation_Reports ↩
"Journals Ranked by Impact: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017. /wiki/Journal_Citation_Reports ↩
"Journals Ranked by Impact: Information Science & Library Science". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017. /wiki/Journal_Citation_Reports ↩