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African Journal of Library Archives and Information Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SSCI. Published by Archlib and Information Services Ltd.
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ISSN 0795-4778Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Archlib and Information Services Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 184 / 296 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2008–2012), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
African Journal of Library Archives and Information Science is Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 184 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Library Archives and Information Science is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.254, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
African Journal of Library Archives and Information Science is published by Archlib and Information Services Ltd. Its ISSN is 0795-4778.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Journal of Library Archives and Information Science has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #243 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
African Journal of Library Archives and Information Science published 102 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 86 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (47.7%), Saudi Arabia (12.8%) and Thailand (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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