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Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), DOAJ. Published by Iowa State University Digital Press.
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ISSN 2162-3309Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Iowa State University Digital Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 149 / 296 | 49th | Q3 |
| Communication | 276 / 541 | 49th | Q3 |
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 1.5.
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication is Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 149 of 296) and Q3 in Communication (rank 276 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 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 1.5, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.434, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication is published by Iowa State University Digital Press. Its ISSN is 2162-3309.
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 Librarianship and Scholarly Communication has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #183 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 44. 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 67 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (55.5%), Canada (11.4%) and South Africa (6.7%). 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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