Aims and Scope

Acta Informatica Pragensia (eISSN 1805-4951; Abbrev.: Acta Inform. Prag.) is an international peer-reviewed journal on applied informatics that uses the Diamond Open Access model of sharing scientific knowledge, which means fully open access, no fees for authors or readers, free English proofreading. The journal has regional roots with a core community of scholars from Central Europe. The journal aims to actively support research and professional activities by offering a publication platform that is available worldwide and is free of charge.

The journal covers a broad range of topics, especially dealing with the social and business aspects of informatics (incl. applied computer science, information science, and information systems). It covers mainly the theory, design, application and management of information and computer-based systems, as well as interactions between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and humans in various application areas.

The journal is open to submissions focused on empirical research (analysis) and design type of research (synthesis) with social and/or organizational impact and thematically relevant review and opinion articles. The journal covers the interdisciplinary nature of business and social aspects related to informatics and includes, but is not limited to, the following subject areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Science
  • Digital Government
  • Domain-Specific Information System Aspects and User Studies
  • Environmental Informatics
  • Health Informatics
  • Human Aspects of Information System Development and Operations
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Internet Research
  • Internet Studies
  • Information Science
  • Information Security
  • Information Society
  • Information System/Information Technology Management and Governance
  • Information System Security and Privacy
  • Knowledge Engineering
  • Knowledge Technologies
  • Knowledge Technologies and the World Wide Web
  • Methodologies for Information System Development and Operations
  • Municipality Information Systems
  • Policy Informatics
  • Semantic Web
  • Social Informatics
  • Socioinformatics
  • Systems Engineering and Informatics