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Information and Learning Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), 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 2398-5348Verify ISSN ↗2398-5356Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 206 / 1698 | 87th | Q1 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 44 / 296 | 85th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 280 / 1022 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
Information and Learning Science is Q1 in Education (rank 206 of 1698), Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 44 of 296) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 280 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Information and Learning Science 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.720, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 43.
Information and Learning Science is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2398-5348 and its online ISSN is 2398-5356.
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.
Information and Learning Science has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 5.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Information and Learning Science published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 69. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (50%), Ireland (6.1%) and Finland (3.1%). 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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