International Journal of Crowd Science

International Journal of Crowd Science is published by Emerald Publishing. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing, Complex Network Analysis Techniques and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, together about 33.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

International Journal of Crowd Science, published by Tsinghua University Press Limited, with the collaboration of Association for Crowd Science and Engineering (ACE), is an international, peer-reviewed open-access academic journal, which publishes inter-disciplinary research on crowd intelligence (CI). It started publication in 2017.Crowd intelligence phenomena are widespread, including collective intelligence, swarm intelligence, as well as other new group phenomena with larger scale and closer interconnection between human intelligence and artificial intelligence. The International Journal of Crowd Science aims to facilitate the discovery of fundamental theories in understanding the networked society of human in the loop AI and crowd intelligence, and to explore related technologies and new ways of developing and harnessing crowd intelligence to improve the efficiency of CI network system, as well as socioeconomic outcomes.The journal welcomes theoretical, technical and applied articles that draw on contributions from multiple fields such as system and information theory, computer science, engineering, management, economics, sociology, and psychology, etc. The title covers but is not limited to:Crowd Intelligence: measurement and interaction, Collective Intelligence, Group Intelligence, Edge/Cloud Intelligence, Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence (HIT-AI), Quantum AI algorithm, etc.Crowd Intelligence network system: modeling, simulation, optimization, evolution, and robustness, etc.Crowd Intelligence related technologies: AI, Blockchain, Cloud Computing and Big Data, the Internet of Thing (IoT), etc.Crowd Intelligence application and influence in social science: Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, Electronic Commerce, E-government, Public affairs decision, Intelligent Transportation, Smart medical care and elderly care, Smart city, etc.International Journal of Crowd Science is indexed and abstracted in EI Compendex, Scopus, Inspec, DOAJ, etc.Ethics Statement

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Decision Sciences-Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)

Editor-in-chief Yueting ChaiPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

5LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher)

5Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.48LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.7LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

24OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

64OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

7.5OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Average review time (community reports)

about 24 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 12 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Emerald Publishing

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

ISSN

2398-7294

Official links

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• Editorial board ↗LetPub
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