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Journal of Information Literacy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), DOAJ. Published by CILIP Information Literacy Group.
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ISSN 1750-5968Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: CILIP Information Literacy Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 96 / 296 | 67th | Q2 |
| Education | 681 / 1698 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Journal of Information Literacy is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 96 of 296) and Q2 in Education (rank 681 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Information Literacy 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 2.8, quartile Q2, 67th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.753, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
Journal of Information Literacy is published by CILIP Information Literacy Group. Its ISSN is 1750-5968.
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.
Journal of Information Literacy has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Journal of Information Literacy published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 53. 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 90 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (37.4%), United States (25%) and Finland (5.2%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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