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Information Technology and Libraries is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), formerly ABDC C, WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by American Library Association.
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ISSN 0730-9295Verify ISSN ↗2163-5226Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Library Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 88 / 296 | 70th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 257 / 519 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1971–1974), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Information Technology and Libraries is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 88 of 296) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 257 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Information Technology and Libraries is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.669, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
Information Technology and Libraries is published by American Library Association. Its print ISSN is 0730-9295 and its online ISSN is 2163-5226.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated C in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Information Technology and Libraries has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 2.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Information Technology and Libraries published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 51. 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 88 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (63.9%), Canada (8.5%) and Indonesia (2.8%). 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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