Sobre la revista

Focus and scope

EPI publishes ORIGINAL scientific and technical articles, in Spanish or English, on: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION which includes: INFORMATION SYSTEMS (analysis and design) and INFORMATION MANAGEMENT with all the corresponding subareas: libraries, documentation centers, scientific publication, databases, document software, intelligence, marketing, indexing, social networks, etc.

Peer review process

The papers are reviewed according to the traditional "peer review" system in double-blind, that is, maintaining mutual anonymity between the reviewer and the author or authors of the work. The journal entrusts the review to experts in the field, members of the journal's Scientific Council and/or external to the editorial team. In view of the review reports, the editor of the journal will make the final decision whether or not to publish the text.

To ensure that the papers do not lose their relevance, the management and evaluators of this journal make a special effort to review the articles very quickly, achieving an average time of acceptance or rejection of the papers of only a few weeks.

Originality analysis

All manuscripts are scanned in Crossref's Similarity Check plagiarism detector, which uses Turnitin's iThenticate:
https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check

Posting Frequency

Information Professional is a bimonthly publication, but articles are published one by one in continuous mode when they are ready, without waiting to complete the issue.

Copyright / Copyright

Information Professional is an open access journal, which means that all content is available free of charge and at no cost to readers or your institution.
Authors retain all rights (c) to their articles.
Articles are published under a Creative Commons BY license.
Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without first asking permission from the publisher or the author.

Item processing fees

EPI is an open access journal and articles cannot be published for free. EPI does not receive any grants and to be funded it requests an APC (article processing fee) from the authors. Articles approved for publication will be subject to an APC of £2100 (except Middle Eastern authors which is 3000 GBP).

"Information professional" in quality rankings

Web of Science (WoS), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Journal Citation Records (JCR)

JIF 2023 = 2.6 (Q1)
JCI 2023 = 1.17 (Q1)

Scopus

SJR 2023 = 0.967 (Q1)
CiteScore 2023 = 8.1 (Q1)
Snip 2023 = 1.764 (Q1)

Dialnet

2022 IDR = 2.81 (Q1)

Google Scholar Metrics

No. 4 in the world in Spanish