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College and Research Libraries is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Association of College and Research Libraries.
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ISSN 0010-0870Verify ISSN ↗2150-6701Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association of College and Research Libraries
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 86 / 296 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1946–1947), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
College and Research Libraries is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 86 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
College and Research Libraries 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.696, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 63.
College and Research Libraries is published by Association of College and Research Libraries. Its print ISSN is 0010-0870 and its online ISSN is 2150-6701.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
College and Research Libraries has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 1.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
College and Research Libraries published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 149. 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 74 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (84.2%), Canada (6.1%) and United Kingdom (1.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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