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The VLDB Journal

ISSN 0949-877x · Springer Science+Business Media · United States · active 1992–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
2.8
SJR
1.258
h-index
127

“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. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

Access status: unknown. 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.

Scope

datamanagementalgorithmssignalprocessingadvanceddatabasequeriescomputernetworkscommunicationssemantic

Frequently asked

Is The VLDB Journal a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag The VLDB Journal. 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, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is The VLDB Journal indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, The VLDB Journal appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is The VLDB Journal's impact?

Papers in The VLDB Journal are cited about 2.8 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 127. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is The VLDB Journal open access?

We hold no reliable open-access classification for The VLDB Journal. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.

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