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Journal of Documentation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0022-0418Verify ISSN ↗1758-7379Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 50 / 296 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 165 / 519 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1945–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Journal of Documentation is Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 50 of 296) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 165 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Documentation is indexed in the 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.692, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 80.
Journal of Documentation is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0022-0418 and its online ISSN is 1758-7379.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Documentation has an h-index of 122 and a 2-year mean of 2.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #73 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Journal of Documentation published 111 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 115. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (26.4%), China (13.6%) and Sweden (7.6%).
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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