International Journal of Electronic Commerce

International Journal of Electronic Commerce is published by M.E. Sharpe Inc. and is in Zone 3 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Digital Marketing and Social Media, Technology Adoption and User Behaviour and Digital Platforms and Economics, together about 36.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Marketing. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The International Journal of Electronic Commerce is the leading refereed quarterly devoted to advancing the understanding and practice of electronic commerce. It serves the needs of researchers as well as practitioners and executives involved in electronic commerce. The Journal aims to offer an integrated view of the field by presenting approaches of multiple disciplines. Electronic commerce is the sharing of business information, maintaining business relationships, and conducting business transactions by digital means over telecommunications networks. The Journal accepts empirical and interpretive submissions that make a significant novel contribution to this field. Such contributions may present: experimental, theoretical, or survey-based research, relevant to the progress of electronic commerce paradigmatic designs and applications investigation of organizational, societal, and international issues of electronic commerce Analytical attention is focused on the following issues: The marketplace and organizational effects of e-commerce Business and organizational transformation with e-commerce Business value in e-commerceInternet business models Supply chain management and collaborative commerce E-tailing and multichannel selling Co-creation and consumer roles in e-commerce Online communities Social media and social networks Economics of electronic commerce E-commerce in business globalization E-marketplaces Marketing on the Web M-commerce and pervasive computing Digital product management and property rights Security and privacy of transactions and information E-commerce payment systems Contributors are invited to submit manuscripts for publication in the International Journal of Electronic Commerce.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Software Engineering

Editor-in-chief Vladimir ZwassPublisher 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

SCIESSCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of ScienceCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, EBSCOhost, Elsevier BV, H.W. Wilson, Thomson Reuters

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

5LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

5.7Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

6.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

6.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

6.2Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

1.03LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.03Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.23LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.23Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

73LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

119OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

542OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.18OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

19.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

8.33%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

21LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

95,000Publisher website · 2026-09-23

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

95,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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

M.E. Sharpe Inc.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1086-4415

Electronic ISSN

1557-9301

Latest issue on the website

Volume 30, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

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