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Journal of the Medical Library Association is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.2), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Medical Library Association.
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ISSN 1536-5050Verify ISSN ↗1558-9439Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Medical Library Association
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 40 / 296 | 86th | Q1 |
| Health Informatics | 39 / 168 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1999), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.2.
Journal of the Medical Library Association is Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 40 of 296) and Q1 in Health Informatics (rank 39 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Medical Library Association 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 7.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.136, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 82.
Journal of the Medical Library Association is published by Medical Library Association. Its print ISSN is 1536-5050 and its online ISSN is 1558-9439.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of the Medical Library Association has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 1.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Journal of the Medical Library Association published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 133. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (72.5%), Canada (10.9%) and United Kingdom (3.2%). 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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