The Information Systems Journal is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

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 that publishes papers on any aspect of information systems, but has particular emphasis on the relationship between information systems

Information systems

Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...

 and people, business, and organisations. The journal was established in 1991 by David Avison and Guy Fitzgerald with the name Journal of Information Systems. The name was changed to Information Systems Journal (ISJ) in 1994.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index

Science Citation Index

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, ProQuest

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, CSA Computer Abstracts

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, Current Contents

Current Contents

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/Social & Behavioral Sciences, EBSCO Databases

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, InfoTrac

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, Inspec

Inspec

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, Psychological Abstracts

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/PsycINFO

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, Scopus

Scopus

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, and the Social Sciences Citation Index

Social Sciences Citation Index

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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of 1.419, ranking it 20th among 65 journals in the category "Information Science & Library Science".