Information Communication & Society

Information Communication & Society is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 1 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication and Impact of Technology on Adolescents, together about 41.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Drawing together leading work upon the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of evolving information and communication technologies (ICTs), this journal positions itself at the centre of contemporary debates about the information age. Information, Communication & Society (iCS) transcends cultural and geographical boundaries as it explores a diverse range of issues relating to the development and application of these technologies, asking such questions as: How are existing and developing forms of communication combining individual, social and machine inputs and what are the consequences of their intersections for culture, politics, the economy or society? What direction will these forms take? As ICT usage is scaling rapidly and widely, underlying technologies operate predominately under a logic of segmentation and specialisation for the advancement of commercial aims. How might this development affect conceptions of identity, belonging, culture or society? How are ICTs, and processes in which they are implicated such as the automation of routine tasks, affecting daily life and social structures such as the family, friendships, work and organization, commerce and business, education, health care, and leisure activities? To what extent are ICTs enabling an age of electronic surveillance and social control? What are the implications for citizen privacy, social equity, public expression, economic and political participation or policing criminal activity? What are the consequences of using ICTs for material objects, spaces, and entities with which people interact and on which they rely? iCS analyses these questions from a global, interdisciplinary perspective in contributions of the very highest quality from scholars and practitioners in the social sciences, gender and cultural studies, communication and media studies, as well as in the information and computer sciences. Peer Review Policy: Published articles in iCS have all been subjected to rigorous peer review comprising initial editorial screening and double anonymized refereeing by at least two referees.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Dan MerceaPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

SCIEINSPECPsycINFOPublisher website

Other: EBSCO, ASCI: Applied Sciences Abstracts, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Computer Science Index, Electronic Collections Online, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts, Risk Abstracts, SafetyLit, Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

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.

Impact

Impact factor

3.51LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

5.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

10.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

10.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.79LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.79Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

2.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

2.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

175OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,834OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.74OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

31.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

246LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

1,500,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

10%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

5 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

114 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

14 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1369-118X

Electronic ISSN

1468-4462

Latest issue on the website

Volume 29, Issue 12 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website