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Aslib Journal of Information Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), formerly ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 1758-3748Verify ISSN ↗2050-3806Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 35 / 296 | 88th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 101 / 519 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
Aslib Journal of Information Management is Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 35 of 296) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 101 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Aslib Journal of Information Management is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.779, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
Aslib Journal of Information Management is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1758-3748 and its online ISSN is 2050-3806.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated B in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Aslib Journal of Information Management has an h-index of 71 and a 2-year mean of 3.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Aslib Journal of Information Management published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 92. 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.
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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