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IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), DOAJ. Published by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR).
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ISSN 2187-0608Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 778 / 1186 | 34th | Q3 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 274 / 296 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 778 of 1186) and Q4 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 274 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3, 34th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship is published by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR). Its ISSN is 2187-0608.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #183 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 18. 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 31 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Philippines (16.1%), Vietnam (9.7%) and India (9.7%).
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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