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Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Alberta.
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ISSN 1715-720XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Alberta
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 176 / 296 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 176 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.225, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is published by University of Alberta. Its ISSN is 1715-720X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #123 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 93. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (63.8%), Canada (23.9%) and Nigeria (3.2%). 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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