About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal addresses how to achieve significant, measurable improvements in addressing the Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals through ICT: Strategies for sourcing goods and services; Best practices for working in different countries; Theories and frameworks that explain the effects of IT on development; and tools and techniques for ascertaining the effects of IT infrastructures in government, civil society, and the private sector.
The Journal accepts theoretical, empirical, and critical research using qualitative and/or quantitative methods that offer contributions to social, economic and/or human development outcomes in the following topics:
Development Issues
• IT ethics and development
• International legal frameworks
• IT and the global community
• Effect of mobile infrastructures on development
• IT and the emergence of the knowledge society
• International ICT dialogues and discourses
• ICT Implications for developed and transition economies
• Consultation and collaboration across the digital differences
• Adoption and diffusion of IT, and rate of uptake on development
• Security of network infrastructures, public key infrastructure
• Scalable infrastructures for development
• Attaining Millennium Development Goals through ICT
• Feasibility of Sustainable Development Goals
• Uptake of ICTs on micro-enterprises and their effect on the economy
Management of Sustainable Organizations
• Business models that enable innovations in ICTs to be applied in organizations
• Micro-enterprise Development through ICTs
• Digital innovations to create new organizational forms
• Entrepreneurial innovations in underserved communities and regions
• Innovative uses of mobile technologies for development
• Blockchain and open source software for smart contracts and telecommunications systems
• Data Analytics for achieving development outcomes
Health Informatics for Development
• Health Equity and use of ICTs for the equitable provision of healthcare
• Medical informatics and telehealth for underserved communities
• Mobile health (mHealth) for improving healthcare outcomes
• Innovations in bioinformatics for improving health outcomes
• Information for action in healthcare
• Health information systems for local and regional development
• Rural health infrastructures on improvements in people’s lives or sustainable development
• ICTs for community health and development
Open Development
• Sustainable Open Development Business Models and Ecosystems
• Peer production projects which include open source, citizen science, or crowdsourcing communities, where the community is driving product innovation
• Peer Production of Knowledge Goods
• Collective Intelligence, Action and Resources
• Open Science and Education
Electronic Government
• IT infrastructure for public administration and reform of legal frameworks
• Human resource development (HRD) frameworkss
• eGovernance for good government (eGovernment, eDemocracy and eBusiness)
• Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) access to public procurement systems
• Systems that promote Civic Engagement
• Social Networking for Civil Society
Global Information Systems (GIS)
• Focus on the strategic and operational advantages of including location and place as part of analytics and information systems in the ICT4D context
• Role of spatial information systems
• Metropolitan growth and GIS
• Technologies and concepts, as applied to management of information systems
• Business intelligence (BI)
• Decision support systems (DSS)
• Knowledge management (KM)
• Cloud technology and mobile solutions
Public Policy for the IT Industry
• Innovations in capacity building for ICT development (education in IT, skills for ICT development)
• IT strategies for development (national and sectoral)
• ICT and political development in transitional economies
• ICT standards and dependency
• Cyber-security
• Procurement: public procurement information systems, sourcing strategies
Information Technology for Development is the official journal of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Global Development and is a publication of the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Peer Review Policy
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor. If found suitable for further consideration, papers are subject to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Instructions for authors can be found here:
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All peer review is double anonymized and submissions can be made online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itd.
Publishing Ethics
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The Journal has an appeals and complaints policy which can be viewed here: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/peer-review-appeals-and-complaints-from-authors/.
STAR
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 227K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 5.1 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 5.4 (2023) 5 year IF
- 11.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.797 (2023) SNIP
- 1.249 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 3 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 82 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 21 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 8% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Silvia Masiero University of Oslo, Norway
Editorial Assistant:
Lehlohonolo Makoti The Commonwealth Secretariat, UK
Senior Editors:
Richard Heeks University of Manchester, UK
Shirin Madon London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
James B. Pick University of Redlands, USA
Sajda Qureshi University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Narcyz Roztocki State University of New York at New Paltz, USA and Kozminski University, Poland
Doug Vogel Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Roland Weistroffer Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Communications Editor:
Jason Xiong Appalachian State University, USA
Associate Editors:
Annika Andersson Örebro University, Sweden
Azadeh Akbari University of Twente, the Netherlands
Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA
Arlene Bailey The University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Judy van Biljon University of South Africa, South Africa
Xusen Cheng Renmin University of China, China
Gerald Grant Carleton University, Canada
Mathias Hatakka Örebro University, Sweden
Andrea Jimenez University of Sheffield, UK
Sherif Kamel The American University in Cairo, Egypt
John Levendis Loyola University, New Orleans
Ramiro Montealegre University of Colorado, USA
Shana Ponelis University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee, USA
Paulo Rupino da Cunha University of Coimbra, Portugal
Sundeep Sahay University of Oslo, Norway
PJ Wall Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Editorial Board:
Pamela Abbot University of Sheffield, UK
Antonio Diaz Andrade University of Agder, Norway
Saïd Assar Telecom Business School, France
Jyoti Choudrie University of Hertfordshire, UK
Eduardo Diniz Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Åke Grönlund Örebro University, Sweden
Marlene Holmner University of Pretoria, South Africa
Sirajul Islam Örebro University, Sweden
Muhammadou M.O. Kah American University of Nigeria, Nigeria
Kenneth Kendall Rutgers University, USA
Caroline Khene Institute of Development Studies, UK
Kari Koskinen Aalto University, Finland
Jolanta Kowal University of Wroclaw, Poland & The Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Yan Li Claremont Graduate University, USA
Thomas Molony University of Edinburgh, UK
Philip F Musa University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Solomon Negash Kennesaw State University, USA
Ojelanki Ngwenyama Ryerson University, Canada & University of Cape Town, South Africa
Brian Nicholson Alliance Manchester Business School University of Manchester, UK and Adjunct Professor HISP Group University of Oslo, Norway
Petter Nielsen University of Oslo, Norway
Frank Nyame-Asiamah Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Nancy Pouloudi Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Piotr Soja Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Edward A. Stohr Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Manoj A. Thomas University of Sydney, Australia
Carina de Villiers University of Pretoria, South Africa
Geoff Walsham University of Cambridge, UK
Peter Wolcott University of Nebraska Omaha, USA
Efpraxia Zamani Durham University, UK
Yingqin Zheng University of Essex, UK
Advisory Board:
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz University of North Florida, USA
Erran Carmel American University, USA
Robert Davison City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Carina Kabajunga The Commonwealth Secretariat,London, UK
B.J. Reed University of Nebraska Omaha, USA
Matthew Smith International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Cathy Urquhart Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Publications Manager:
Ross Fulton Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Information Technology for Development is currently abstracted and indexed in:
ABI/Inform
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
Association of Information Systems (AIS) - Affiliated Journal
Australian Business Deans Council Journal Quality List
Australian Research Council ERA list 2015
Baidu Scholar
British Library Inside
CAB Abstracts (CABI)
CABS Academic Journal Guide
Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents® / Social & Behavioral Sciences
Clarivate Analytics: Social Sciences Citation Index®
CNKI
CNPIEC
CnpLINKer
Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI)
DTU Findit
E-lib Breman
EBSCO Databases
EconPapers
Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
Finnish Publication Forum (Julkaisufoorumi)
Genamics JournalSeek
Google Scholar
IBR Online
IBZ Online
INSPEC®
JournalTOCs
Microsoft Academic
Naver Academic
NHN
Norwegian Register of Scientific Journals and Publishers
Portico
ProQuest Advanced Technologies and Aerospace
ProQuest Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
ProQuest LISA
ProQuest Technology Collection
PsycInfo
Publons
RePEc (IDEAS)
SciBase
Scopus™ - click here for current CiteScore
TOC Premier
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Web of Science
WorldCat Local (OCLC)
Zetoc
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