First Monday
ISSN 1396-0458 · University of Illinois at Chicago · United States · active 1969–2026
Metrics
- Best Scimago quartile (2025)
- Q1
- Cites per paper (2y)
- 3.7
- SJR
- 0.516
- h-index
- 121
“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.
Data as of 25 October 2026 (venue index build).
Scimago Journal Rank 2025
In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, First Monday is Q1 in 1 of its 3 subject categories, Q2 in 1 and Q3 in 1. Its best category quartile is Q1.
| Subject category | Quartile | Rank in category |
|---|---|---|
| Law | Q1 | #245 of 1,141 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | Q2 | #172 of 423 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | Q3 | #94 of 163 |
- Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
- 2.94
- Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
- 74
The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).
First Monday is Q1 in 1 of its 3 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Law: Q1, #245 of 1,141), with SJR 0.516 (Scimago) and an h-index of 121 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus.
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Indexing & access
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- Access status:
- gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
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Frequently asked
Is First Monday a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag First Monday. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, which is a positive signal.
Is First Monday indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, First Monday appears in: Scopus. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.
What is the impact factor of First Monday?
Papers in First Monday are cited about 3.7 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 121. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.
What Scimago quartile is First Monday (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?
In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, First Monday is Q1 in 1 of its 3 subject categories, Q2 in 1 and Q3 in 1. By category: Law: Q1, #245 of 1,141; Computer Networks and Communications: Q2, #172 of 423; Human-Computer Interaction: Q3, #94 of 163. Its best category quartile is Q1. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; First Monday is cited about 3.7 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 121.
What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of First Monday?
The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for First Monday. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q1 in Law, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.
Is First Monday open access?
Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.
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