International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures is published by Inderscience Publishers and is in Zone 4 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis, Smart Grid Security and Resilience and Network Security and Intrusion Detection, together about 39% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Critical infrastructure (CI) design,/protection/management Emerging systemic risks: policy, standards and regulations Institutional design, market structuring, network regulation Risk/vulnerability/resilience based decision-making Risk/vulnerability criteria development for assessing robustness Governance models/policy instruments in liberalised markets System dynamic behaviour Vulnerability/resilience economics; behaviour of interdependent CIs Cyber security and CI protection Stakeholder interactions and trust building Advanced control engineering concepts/ICTs in complex networks Cross-border interconnections, international harmonisation Global CIs; geopolitical risk assessment Threat identification/assessment/monitoring models/techniques Next generation intelligent infrastructures More on this journal... ObjectivesIJCIS aims to provide an authoritative source of information and an unique international forum in the field of Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and Management of Vital Societal Systems exposed to antropogenic and natural threats. It intends to establish channels of communication and to disseminate the best practice, knowledge and state of the art science, and stakeholders involvement between policy makers, practitioners, researchers and academia working in the field. ReadershipProfessionals, academics, researchers and policy makers.ContentsIJCIS publishes: original papers, review papers; case studies; conference reports; briefs and reports and news; book review and notes. To encourage young students, at undergraduate and graduate levels, the Student Section will be open for the first time as a platform for the future specialists to promote new and fresh ideas and projects into the internationally reviewed literature. Commentaries on papers and reports published in the Journal are encouraged. Special Issues devoted to important topics in risk assessment and vulnerability management of vital systems/ critical infrastructures and related topics, will be published occasionally.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

EI CompendexWeb of ScienceINSPECDBLPPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, Astrophysics Data System

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

0.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.32LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

36OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

136OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.68OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

33.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

36LetPub · 2026-09-13

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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.

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

Inderscience Publishers

ISSN

1475-3219

Electronic ISSN

1741-8038

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex