Online Information Review

Online Information Review is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. 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, Social Media and Politics and Technology Adoption and User Behaviour, together about 30.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The journal provides a multi-disciplinary forum for scholars from a range of fields, including information studies/iSchools, data studies, internet studies, media and communication studies and information systems. Publishes research on the social, political and ethical aspects of emergent digital information practices and platforms, and welcomes submissions that draw upon critical and socio-technical perspectives in order to address these developments. Welcomes empirical, conceptual and methodological contributions on any topics relevant to the broad field of digital information and communication, however we are particularly interested in receiving submissions that address emerging issues around the below topics. Coverage includes (but is not limited to): •Online communities, social networking and social media, including online political communication; crowdsourcing; positive computing and wellbeing. •The social drivers and implications of emerging data practices, including open data; big data; data journeys and flows; and research data management. •Digital transformations including organisations’ use of information technologies (e.g. Internet of Things and digitisation of user experience) to improve economic and social welfare, health and wellbeing, and protect the environment. •Developments in digital scholarship and the production and use of scholarly content. •Online and digital research methods, including their ethical aspects.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Information Systems

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIESSCIScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor

3.72LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

8.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.38LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

50LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

107OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,127OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

5.76OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

15.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

5.61%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

67LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

2000

ISSN

1468-4527

Electronic ISSN

1468-4535

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex