International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)

What International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) does

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) is an open-access academic publisher founded in 2012 and headquartered in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. It operates a monthly multidisciplinary scientific journal indexed across more than a dozen databases including Google Scholar, CrossRef, WorldCat, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, SciLit, Scinapse, ResearchBib, and Qualis CAPES, distributing articles under a CC-BY license. The platform applies a double-blind peer review process and serves a stated community of more than 10,000 researchers, with claimed reach across Asia, North America, Europe, Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

The publisher's product surface has expanded beyond manuscript publication to include IJSR e-Presentations (video abstracts), an automated peer review management system, certificate generation, and ancillary author services covering academic writing, copy editing, plagiarism checking, and language translation. It sponsors academic conferences (e.g., ICIPR2021, COMET'19) and maintains an editorial blog covering emerging research topics. The journal is identified by ISSN 2319-7064 and currently claims an SJIFactor impact factor of 7.089 (2025).

IJSR's business model is built on Article Processing Charges (APCs) charged to authors under a low-cost, open-access positioning. The organization operates with a lean team of approximately 17 employees, suggesting a cost-advantaged structure relative to Western open-access competitors. No external funding rounds, acquisitions, or institutional partnerships have been disclosed.

Name

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)

Legal name

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)

Website

https://ijsr.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) is an India-based open-access academic publisher founded in 2012 that operates a monthly multidisciplinary journal under a CC-BY license, serving a community of more than 10,000 researchers globally through APC-based publishing, peer review, and ancillary author services.

Ownership category

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Product category

Academic Journal Publishing

NAICS

All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (54199)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs (EDAGAFAJ), Conference Proceedings & Research Reports Publishing (EDAGAFAL)

Keywords

• Academic journal publishing
• Open access publishing
• Peer review services
• Scholarly publishing
• Scientific research publication

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Article Processing Charges (APC): Authors pay article processing charges for manuscript review and publication. The journal operates on an open access model where authors bear publication costs to enable free global access to research outputs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) is a globally distributed, open-access scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed research papers, survey papers, case studies, review papers, comparative studies, dissertation chapters, research proposals, M.Tech/M.E/PhD theses, and photo essays across multidisciplinary scientific fields. The journal operates on a monthly publication cycle under a Creative Commons CC-BY license, with manuscript review and publication fees (Article Processing Charges) paid by authors to enable unrestricted global reader access.

Product overview

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal platform operating as a multidisciplinary publication venue. The core offering is the Manuscript Publication Platform, which handles double-blind peer-reviewed submissions across scientific disciplines with monthly publication frequency. The platform is supported by add-on services including Academic Writing Services, Copy Editing and Proofreading, Plagiarism Check Service, and Language Translation Service. Additional features encompass IJSR e-Presentations (multimedia video content of published papers), a Peer Review Management System, and Certificate Generation for authors and reviewers. The journal maintains indexing across major academic databases and is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Manuscript Publication Platform
• Academic Writing Services
• Copy Editing and Proofreading
• Plagiarism Check Service
• Language Translation Service

Quantifiable outcome

• Impact Factor 7.089 for 2025
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Google ScholarcoreTechnology or IntegrationIJSR content is indexed and searchable through Google Scholar, enabling broad academic discoverability and citation tracking for published articles.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Dove Medical Press: Dove Medical Press publishes open-access peer-reviewed journals funded by APCs and was acquired by Taylor & Francis, representing an exit trajectory relevant to a small OA publisher.
• Hindawi: Hindawi operates an open-access journal portfolio across multiple disciplines under an APC model and was acquired by Wiley in 2021, making it a structurally direct comparator.
• PeerJ: PeerJ publishes open-access peer-reviewed journals with paid membership and article-processing-fee models, sharing IJSR's streamlined online submission and broad disciplinary ambition.
• Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP): SCIRP publishes a broad portfolio of open-access journals under an APC model, frequently grouped with journals in similar indexing and impact-factor tiers to IJSR.
• MDPI: MDPI is one of the largest open-access journal publishers globally with hundreds of peer-reviewed multidisciplinary titles funded by APCs, the closest direct analogue to IJSR's model.
• PLOS: PLOS pioneered the author-pays open-access journal model with peer-reviewed titles across life sciences and broader disciplines; it sets the gold-standard reference point IJSR is benchmarked against.
• Academic Journals Inc. Academic Journals Inc. operates a large open-access journal portfolio across scientific disciplines on an APC model, directly comparable in scale and positioning to IJSR.
• Frontiers Media: Frontiers publishes open-access peer-reviewed journals across science and humanities under an APC model, with comparable conference and add-on service offerings.

Broad incumbents

• SAGE Open: SAGE Open is the open-access megajournal within SAGE Publishing's broader portfolio, offering APC-funded multidisciplinary publishing with the backing of an established incumbent publisher.

Others

• ResearchGate: ResearchGate is a researcher-networking and discovery platform that complements (rather than competes directly with) journals like IJSR, serving as an alternative dissemination and citation-tracking channel for the same author base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EditorIJSR
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC7YaJbhd_1-APK09dQTgJMg?sub_confirmation=1
• Facebookfacebook.com/ijsrnet
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/international-journal-of-science-and-research-ijsr-

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