International Journal of Critical Infrastructures
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Dr. Adrian V. Gheorghe
- ISSN online
- 1741-8038
- ISSN print
- 1475-3219
- 6 issues per year
- Impact factor (Clarivate Analytics) 2024 JIF 0.5 (5 Year Impact Factor 0.6)
- CiteScore 1.1 (2024)
JCI 0.08
IJCIS provides a professional and scholarly forum for cross-learning between different scientific and technological disciplines, and between business and economic, as well as between societal and managerial, disciplines in the area of critical infrastructures. Critical infrastructures are networks for the provision of telecommunication and information services, energy services (electrical power, natural gas, oil and heat), water supply, transportation of people and goods, banking and financial services, government services and emergency services.
IJCIS is an Open Access-only journal and article processing charges (APCs) apply.
Topics covered include
- Critical infrastructure (CI) design,/protection/management
- Emerging systemic risks: policy, standards and regulations
- Institutional design, market structuring, network regulation
- Risk/vulnerability/resilience based decision-making
- Risk/vulnerability criteria development for assessing robustness
- Governance models/policy instruments in liberalised markets
- System dynamic behaviour
- Vulnerability/resilience economics; behaviour of interdependent CIs
- Cyber security and CI protection
- Stakeholder interactions and trust building
- Advanced control engineering concepts/ICTs in complex networks
- Cross-border interconnections, international harmonisation
- Global CIs; geopolitical risk assessment
- Threat identification/assessment/monitoring models/techniques
- Next generation intelligent infrastructures
Objectives
IJCIS aims to provide an authoritative source of information and an unique international forum in the field of Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and Management of Vital Societal Systems exposed to antropogenic and natural threats. It intends to establish channels of communication and to disseminate the best practice, knowledge and state of the art science, and stakeholders involvement between policy makers, practitioners, researchers and academia working in the field.
Readership
Professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers.
Contents
IJCIS publishes: original papers, review papers; case studies; conference reports; briefs and reports and news; book review and notes. To encourage young students, at undergraduate and graduate levels, the Student Section will be open for the first time as a platform for the future specialists to promote new and fresh ideas and projects into the internationally reviewed literature. Commentaries on papers and reports published in the Journal are encouraged. Special Issues devoted to important topics in risk assessment and vulnerability management of vital systems/ critical infrastructures and related topics, will be published occasionally.
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- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Compendex [formerly Ei] (Elsevier)
- Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- ADS [Astrophysics Data System](Smithsonian Institution)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- General OneFile (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- Pascal (INIST-CNRS)
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
- TRID [Transportation Research Information Services + ITRD] (Transportation Research Board)
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More journal lists/directories...Editor in Chief
- Gheorghe, Adrian V., Old Dominion University, USA
(agheorgh
odu.edu)
Editor
- Katina, Polinpapiliñho F., University of South Carolina Upstate, USA
European Editor
- Weijnen, Margot P.C., Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
North American Editor
- Mili, Lamine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Editors At Large
- Bologna, Sandro, Italian Association of Critical Infrastructures' Experts (AIIC), Italy
- Kröger, Wolfgang, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Editorial Board Members
- Alcaraz, Cristina, University of Malaga, Spain
- Barbarosoglu, Gülay, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Turkey
- Boustras, George, European University Cyprus, Cyprus
- Bucovetchi, Olga, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
- Doerig, Adolf J., Doerig + Partner AG, Switzerland
- Erkut, Erhan, University of Alberta, Canada
- Ezell, Barry Charles, Old Dominion University, USA
- Filip, Florin, Romanian Academy of Sciences (Academia Romana), Romania
- Herder, Paulien M., Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Horii, Hideyuki, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Little, Richard, National Academy of Sciences, USA
- Mock, Ralf, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Papazoglou, Ioannis A., National Centre for Scientific Research ‘DEMOKRITOS’, Greece
- Phadke, Arun G., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
- Pulfer, Roland, Action4Value GmbH, Germany
- Quintanilha, Alexandre, University of Porto, Portugal
- Shi, Peijun, Beijing Normal University, China
- Timashev, Sviatoslav A., Russian Academy of Sciences and Ural Federal University, Russian Federation
- Vamanu, Dan, 'Horia Hulubei' National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
- Varnado, Samuel G., Sandia National Laboratories, USA
- Wang, Ming, IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project, China
- Zimmerman, Rae, New York University, USA
A few essentials for publishing in this journal
- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
- All our articles go through a double-blind review process.
- All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors (PDF) is available.
- This is an Open Access-only journal. There is an article processing charge of US $1600 to publish in this journal. You can find more information on Open Access here. Authors who have submitted articles prior to 23 April 2025 will still have a choice of publishing as a standard or an Open Access article.
- All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.
- View Author guidelines.
Submission process
Journal news
Shaking up economic early warning systems with artificial jellyfish
22 September, 2025
A study in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures discusses a financial early warning system based on an artificial jellyfish algorithm that combines machine learning with principles of the circular economy. The system could help manufacturers detect financial stress before it escalates into a crisis. Such a system could offer industrial stability as economic models shift towards sustainability and resource efficiency [...]
More details...Current affairs
21 October, 2025
A new approach to accurately determining the state of charge (SoC) of a lithium-ion battery could improve safety and longevity of electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and portable electronics, according to research in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures. The work builds on an approach that not only measures a battery's remaining charge with exceptional precision but also detects and corrects sensor faults in real time [...]
More details...Eight Inderscience journals announced as open access-only titles
23 April, 2025
We are pleased to announce that the following titles
- International Journal of Business Excellence
- International Journal of Business Innovation and Research
- International Journal of Business Information Systems
- International Journal of Critical Infrastructures
- International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management
- International Journal of Information and Coding Theory
- International Journal of Services and Operations Management
- International Journal of System of Systems Engineering
are now Open Access-only journals. All accepted articles submitted from 23 April 2025 onwards will be Open Access, and will require an article processing charge of US $1600.
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