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DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre.
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ISSN 0974-0643Verify ISSN ↗0976-4658Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 132 / 296 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 132 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.336, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology is published by Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre. Its print ISSN is 0974-0643 and its online ISSN is 0976-4658.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #130 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 70. 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 81 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (82.7%), Indonesia (4.9%) and United States (2.5%). 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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