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Journal of Location Based Services is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1748-9725Verify ISSN ↗1748-9733Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 213 / 568 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Signal Processing | 79 / 203 | 61st | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 417 / 1030 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Journal of Location Based Services is Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 213 of 568), Q2 in Signal Processing (rank 79 of 203) and Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 417 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Location Based Services 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.395, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
Journal of Location Based Services is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1748-9725 and its online ISSN is 1748-9733.
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.
Journal of Location Based Services has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #151 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Journal of Location Based Services published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 17. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (15.4%), United States (8.8%) and Austria (8.5%).
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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