''Internet Research'' (INTR) is a

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academic journal, published by

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. 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 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,

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, 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, , ''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 academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

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

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, 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

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mentions the phrase "World-wide web".

Impact factor

The journal has a 2020

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of 6.773. According to the ''

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'', 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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References

External links

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