''Internet Research'' (INTR) is a peer-reviewed academic journal, published by

Emerald Publishing Emerald Publishing Limited is a scholarly publisher of academic journals and books in the fields of management, business, education, library studies, health care, and engineering. History Emerald was founded in the United Kingdom in 1967 as ...

. It aims to describe, assess and foster understanding of the role of wide-area, multi-purpose computer networks such as the Internet.

History

The journal was founded as ''Electronic Networks'' in 1990, with the first articles published in 1991. Articles from 1991 onward are available online at the journal's website. In 1993 the journal was renamed Internet Research. Emerald acquired the journal from

Mecklermedia Mecklermedia (formerly Internet.com LLC, Jupitermedia Inc., Mediabistro Inc. and WebMediaBrands Corporation) was a U.S.-based corporation. The original WebMediaBrands was established in 1994, and headquartered in New York. Founded by Alan M. ...

in 1995. The journal received its first ever Impact Factor of 0.356 in 1997.

Editors-in-chief

The current editor is Christy M. K. Cheung, Department of Finance and Decision Sciences,

Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded tertiary liberal arts institution with a Christian education heritage. It was established as Hong Kong Baptist College with the support of American Baptists, who provided both operatin ...

, Hong Kong Editors-in-chief of the journal have included: * 1995–1998: John Peters, Emerald * 1998–2011: David G. Schwartz,

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academi ...

, Israel * 2011–2016: Bernard J. Jansen,

The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State becam ...

, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Notable articles

There have been several highly cited articles published in ''Internet Research'', including the 1992 article "World‐wide web: the information universe", which is one of the first academic articles where

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a profes ...

mentions the phrase "World-wide web".

Impact factor

The journal has a 2020

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...

of 6.773. According to the ''

Journal Citation Reports ''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collec ...

'', the journal had a 2016

of 2.931, ranking it 34th out of 146 journals in the category "COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS". The 2015

was 3.017, which was the highest impact factor of any Emerald journal that year.Private Correspondence with Emerald journal manager to Dr. Jansen, 15 June 2016

Indexing

IntR is indexed in, among others, the following

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s: *

EBSCOhost EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of very many types around the ...

Elsevier BV Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', th ...

* OCLC *

Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the th ...

ProQuest ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power. ProQuest is known for its applications and information services for libraries, provid ...

Scopus Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-l ...

* Social Sciences Citation Index *

Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corpora ...

* VINITI RAN

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/INTR.htm Information science journals Computer science journals Emerald Group Publishing academic journals