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An information science faculty member listing their peer-reviewed paper in Information Processing & Management under their tenure dossier's Q1 publication section.
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A bibliometric analyst comparing the 5-year citation impact of IP&M (8.3) against JASIST to assess long-term citation decay in information retrieval scholarship.
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A research administrator referencing IP&M's dual indexing in SSCI and SCIE to confirm compliance with institutional open-access and disciplinary funding mandates.
Editorial commentary
Information Processing & Management (IP&M) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier (print ISSN 0306-4573) that sits at the intersection of computing and library and information science. To understand its theoretical foundations, see our guide to what is information science and its relationship to what is library science.
What is Information Processing & Management?
The journal was founded in 1963 as Information Storage and Retrieval and renamed Information Processing and Management in 1975. It is listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index, among other databases. For library and information science (LIS) scholars it is a venue where algorithmic work on information retrieval meets questions about how people find and use information.
What is the information processing and management impact factor?
The information processing and management impact factor is the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) that Clarivate reports for the journal in its Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The JIF is a two-year citation ratio: citations received in the JCR year by items the journal published in the previous two years, divided by the number of citable items it published in those two years. It describes the journal as a whole, not any individual paper. As with other journal metrics pages on this site, such as Heliyon’s Journal Impact Factor, the current value changes every JCR release, so read it in the JCR (subscription required) for the year you need rather than relying on a figure quoted elsewhere.
Which other metrics describe the journal?
Elsevier journals also carry Scopus metrics such as CiteScore, which uses a different citation window and database from the JIF. A JIF and a CiteScore for the same journal are therefore not interchangeable, and quartile rankings depend on the subject category used. IP&M is indexed under information science and library science and under computer science categories, so check which category a quartile claim refers to.
How should the impact factor be used in evaluation?
Research administrators and tenure committees should apply journal-level indicators responsibly. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the Leiden Manifesto both advise against using journal metrics as a proxy for the quality of an individual paper or an author’s contribution, such as first author status.
FAQ
Who publishes Information Processing & Management?
Elsevier publishes it; the print ISSN is 0306-4573.
Has the journal always had this name?
No. It began in 1963 as Information Storage and Retrieval and took its current name in 1975.
Where do I find the current impact factor?
In Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports, which list the JIF by year and by subject category.
Is the impact factor the same as CiteScore?
No. They come from different databases (Web of Science and Scopus) and use different citation windows. See also The Lancet’s impact factor for another journal-metrics example.
Sources
- Crossref. Journal record for ISSN 0306-4573, https://api.crossref.org/journals/0306-4573 (checked November 7, 2026).
- Wikipedia. “Information Processing & Management”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Processing_%26_Management (checked November 7, 2026).
- Clarivate. Journal Citation Reports, https://jcr.clarivate.com/ (method reference; current values require a subscription).
- DORA. San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, https://sfdora.org/read/ (referenced for responsible use).
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