Journal profile · COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems
ISSN 2032-9407 · European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) · Belgium
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems: CAS Zone 4 · Computer Science (2025 upgraded edition); fully open access; APC about USD 400; review about 10 weeks (community reports); 46 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems is published by European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) and is in Zone 4 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Network Security and Intrusion Detection and Cloud Computing and Resource Management, together about 23.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be merged to address the scalability concern. The scope of the journal includes: Scalable distributed information systems Scalable grid information systems Parallel information processing and systems Web information searching and retrieval Data mining Content delivery networks (CDN) VLDB P2P systems Scalable mobile and wireless database systems Large scale sensor network systems Index compression methods Architectures for scalability Scalable information system applications Evaluation metrics for scalability Information security Article Processing Charge (APC) Starting May 1, 2026, authors of all articles will be required to pay an APC of $800. Submissions made prior to May 1, 2026 will be charged $400. The APC was established to cover editorial production expenses. APC Waiver and Discount Policy EAI offers discounts or waivers from Article Processing Charges to early-career scholars lacking institutional resources and scholars based in locations classified by the World Bank as low-income and lower-middle income economies. To apply for an APC waiver or discount, authors should contact the EAI Publications Department by sending an email to publications@eai.eu, stating their manuscript ID, name of the journal to which their manuscript was submitted to, and their reasoning. Requests will be considered by the Publications Department on a case-by-case basis only after the manuscript has been accepted for publication in the journal. Manuscripts which have not yet passed the peer review process will not be considered. Access All articles in the journal are Open Access (OA). Frequency This is a monthly journal in which twelve issues are published per year (started from 2024). Copyright notice Authors retain copyright over their materials and are free to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material since all the papers are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Archiving All the articles published by EAI are archived using Portico's e-journal preservation service, together with CLOCKSS and LOCKSS. This ensures that all articles
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Editor-in-chief Hua WangPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 9 in mainland China (about 11%); most named India 15, Australia 10, Mainland China 9, Taiwan, China 8, United States 7 (81 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- IoT and Edge/Fog ComputingComputer Science8.7%
- Network Security and Intrusion DetectionComputer Science8.4%
- Cloud Computing and Resource ManagementComputer Science6%
- Blockchain Technology Applications and SecurityComputer Science5.9%
- Advanced Technologies in Various FieldsComputer Science5.9%
- Educational Technology and PedagogyComputer Science5.2%
- Advanced Malware Detection TechniquesComputer Science4.2%
- Topic ModelingComputer Science3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Computer Science Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Computer Science Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, EBSCO, Crossref, Dimensions
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.42LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.82LetPub ·
- h-index
- 25OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 111OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.29OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 20%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.5%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 100LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 804 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 106 | 106 | 2 |
| 2025 | 46 | 46 | 25 |
| 2024 | 139 | 139 | 349 |
| 2023 | 182 | 182 | 950 |
| 2022 | 27 | 27 | 180 |
| 2021 | 10 | 10 | 101 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 10 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 400 | No | CC BY-NC-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 800 / USD 400 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- USD 400
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- 3–8
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted10, with length limits
- commentaryResearch article: Articles (4000-8000 words) that report original research and which present objective, questions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusion…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- editorialResearch article: Articles (4000-8000 words) that report original research and which present objective, questions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusion…main text ≤ 2,000 words
- opinionResearch article: Articles (4000-8000 words) that report original research and which present objective, questions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusion…Length not stated
- original researchResearch article: Articles (4000-8000 words) that report original research and which present objective, questions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusion…Length not stated
- research articleResearch article: Articles (4000-8000 words) that report original research and which present objective, questions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusion…main text ≤ 8,000 words
- reviewResearch article: Articles (4000-8000 words) that report original research and which present objective, questions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusion…Length not stated
- review articleResearch article: Articles (4000-8000 words) that report original research and which present objective, questions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusion…main text ≤ 8,000 words
- short communicationResearch article: Articles (4000-8000 words) that report original research and which present objective, questions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusion…main text ≤ 2,500 words
- short communicationsShort communications: Short articles (1000-2500 words) containing original research pieces.Length not stated
- technical articleTechnical Article: Technical articles are original reports on specialist technical work, written for a professional audience.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Copyright retained by authors; right of first publication granted to journal under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Model summary
Authors retain copyright over their materials and are free to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material. By submitting their work to this journal, the authors grant the journal the right of first publication under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This license allows for others to share, redistribute, remix,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
APC waivers/discounts for early-career scholars and authors in low/lower-middle income economies. Model summary
EAI offers discounts or waivers from Article Processing Charges to early-career scholars lacking institutional resources and scholars based in locations classified by the World Bank as low-income and lower-middle income economies.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
- Country or region
- Belgium
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2032-9407
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems
What CAS zone is EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems is in Zone 4 of Computer Science, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Computer Science, Information Systems. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Computer Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems?
Authors report an average review time of about 10 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: 3–8; Reference style: Vancouver. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems based?
Of the 81 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 9 (about 11%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (15), Australia (10) and Mainland China (9). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems open access, and what is the APC?
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 400.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, DOAJ, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .