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Digital Library Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 2054-1694Verify ISSN ↗2059-5816Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 76 / 296 | 74th | Q2 |
| Education | 483 / 1698 | 71st | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 217 / 519 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Digital Library Perspectives is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 76 of 296), Q2 in Education (rank 483 of 1698) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 217 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Digital Library Perspectives 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.564, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 30.
Digital Library Perspectives is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2054-1694 and its online ISSN is 2059-5816.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Digital Library Perspectives has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #244 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Digital Library Perspectives published 1 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2009 with 32. 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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