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Best Library and Information Sciences journals

293 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Library and Information Sciences. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 74 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 International Journal of Information Management 54.4 99th Q1 SSCI A No
2 International Journal of Information Management Data Insights 25.1 99th Q1 – – Yes
3 Government Information Quarterly 23.9 99th Q1 SSCI A No
4 European Journal of Information Systems 20.7 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
5 Journal of Enterprise Information Management 19.6 98th Q1 SSCI A No
6 Information Processing and Management 16.8 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
7 Journal of Information Technology 16.3 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
8 Library Hi Tech 15.6 97th Q1 – – No
9 Education and Information Technologies 15.5 97th Q1 SSCI – No
10 Information Technology and People 15.5 96th Q1 SSCI A No
11 Information Systems Research 13.8 96th Q1 SSCI A* No
12 Library Hi Tech News 13.3 96th Q1 – – No
13 Telecommunications Policy 12.7 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
14 Information Systems Management 12.3 95th Q1 SCIE A No
15 International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval 11.4 95th Q1 SCIE – No
16 VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 11.3 94th Q1 ESCI B No
17 Social Science Computer Review 11.2 94th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
18 Data and Information Management 11.1 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
19 International Journal of Geographical Information Science 10.9 93rd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
20 Ethics and Information Technology 10.6 93rd Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
21 Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 10.6 93rd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
22 Information Communication and Society 10.4 92nd Q1 SSCI A No
23 Knowledge Management Research and Practice 10.3 92nd Q1 SSCI A No
24 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 9.8 92nd Q1 – – No
25 Bottom Line 9.8 91st Q1 ESCI C No
26 Journal of Cheminformatics 9.8 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
27 Big Data and Society 9.7 91st Q1 SSCI – Yes
28 Information and Organization 9.6 90th Q1 SSCI A* No
29 Scientific Data 9.6 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
30 Journal of Decision Systems 9 90th Q1 ESCI B No
31 Information Development 9 89th Q1 SSCI – No
32 Information Discovery and Delivery 8.9 89th Q1 ESCI C No
33 Journal of Information Science 8.8 89th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
34 Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 8.8 88th Q1 SCIE – No
35 Aslib Journal of Information Management 8.5 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
36 Online Information Review 8.4 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
37 Quantitative Science Studies 8 87th Q1 ESCI – Yes
38 Kybernetes 7.7 87th Q1 SCIE – No
39 Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 7.4 86th Q1 ESCI B No
40 Journal of the Medical Library Association 7.2 86th Q1 SSCI – Yes
41 Digital Transformation and Society 7 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
42 Scientometrics 6.9 85th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A No
43 Journal of Informetrics 6.7 85th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
44 Information and Learning Science 6.5 85th Q1 ESCI – No
45 Accountability in Research 6.4 84th Q1 SCIE – No
46 Data Intelligence 6 84th Q1 ESCI – No
47 Learned Publishing 5.8 84th Q1 SSCI – No
48 Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 5.8 83rd Q1 SSCI – No
49 Journal of Documentation 5.7 83rd Q1 SSCI B No
50 Publications 5.7 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
51 Journal of Web Librarianship 5.7 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
52 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 5.6 82nd Q1 ESCI A No
53 Computers in the Schools 5.5 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
54 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 5.5 81st Q1 SCIE – No
55 Language Resources and Evaluation 5.4 81st Q1 SCIE – No
56 Science and Technology Libraries 5.4 81st Q1 – – No
57 Internet Reference Services Quarterly 5.4 80th Q1 – – No
58 Journal of Academic Librarianship 5.4 80th Q1 SSCI – No
59 Indian Journal of Information Sources and Services 5.3 80th Q1 – – No
60 Library and Information Science Research 5.2 79th Q1 SSCI – No
61 Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 5.2 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
62 Data Technologies and Applications 4.9 79th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
63 Open Information Science 4.8 78th Q1 – – Yes
64 Informing Science 4.7 78th Q1 – – No
65 Open Praxis 4.7 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
66 International Journal on Digital Libraries 4.7 77th Q1 ESCI – No
67 New Review of Academic Librarianship 4.6 77th Q1 ESCI – No
68 Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association 4.5 77th Q1 SSCI – No
69 World Patent Information 4.5 76th Q1 ESCI – No
70 Electronic Library 4.4 76th Q1 SSCI – No
71 Journal of Health Communication 4.1 76th Q1 SSCI – No
72 Acta Informatica Pragensia 4.1 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
73 Health Information and Libraries Journal 4.1 75th Q1 SSCI – No
74 Journal of Classification 4 75th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
75 Digital Library Perspectives 3.8 74th Q2 ESCI – No
76 Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics 3.8 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
77 Archival Science 3.6 74th Q2 ESCI – No
78 Research Evaluation 3.6 73rd Q2 SSCI C No
79 IFLA Journal 3.6 73rd Q2 ESCI – No
80 Reference Services Review 3.6 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
81 Iberoamerican Journal of Science Measurement and Communication 3.5 72nd Q2 – – No
82 Library Management 3.4 72nd Q2 ESCI C No
83 Public Library Quarterly 3.3 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
84 Reference Librarian 3.3 71st Q2 – – No
85 College and Research Libraries 3.2 71st Q2 SSCI – Yes
86 Journal of Data and Information Science 3.2 71st Q2 ESCI – Yes
87 Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases 3.1 70th Q2 – – No
88 Information Technology and Libraries 3 70th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
89 Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture 3 70th Q2 – – Yes
90 Records Management Journal 2.9 69th Q2 ESCI C No
91 Collection and Curation 2.9 69th Q2 ESCI – No
92 Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship 2.9 69th Q2 ESCI – No
93 Interacting with Computers 2.9 68th Q2 SCIE, SSCI B No
94 F1000Research 2.9 68th Q2 – – Yes
95 Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 2.8 68th Q2 – – Yes
96 Journal of Information Literacy 2.8 67th Q2 – – Yes
97 Journal of Information and Knowledge Management 2.7 67th Q2 ESCI C No
98 Journal of Library Science in China 2.7 67th Q2 – – No
99 Intelligent Systems Reference Library 2.6 66th Q2 – – No
100 Knowledge Cultures 2.6 66th Q2 – – No
101 LIBER Quarterly 2.6 66th Q2 – – Yes
102 Library Quarterly 2.5 65th Q2 SSCI – No
103 Social Science Information 2.4 65th Q2 SSCI C No
104 Journal of Statistics Applications and Probability 2.4 65th Q2 – – No
105 International Information and Library Review 2.4 64th Q2 – – No
106 Libri 2.4 64th Q2 SSCI – Yes
107 Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology 2.4 64th Q2 – – No
108 Communications in Information Literacy 2.3 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
109 Journal of Library Administration 2.3 63rd Q2 ESCI – No
110 Information Resources Management Journal 2.2 63rd Q2 ESCI C No
111 Education for Information 2.2 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
112 Terminology 2.2 62nd Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
113 Journal of Scientometric Research 2.2 61st Q2 ESCI – No
114 Documentation, Information and Knowledge 2.1 61st Q2 – – No
115 Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 2.1 61st Q2 ESCI – Yes
116 Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery 2.1 60th Q2 – – No
117 Public Services Quarterly 2 60th Q2 – – No
118 SCIRES-IT 2 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
119 Discover Computing 2 59th Q2 SCIE – Yes
120 Insights: the UKSG Journal 2 59th Q2 ESCI – Yes
121 Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning 2 59th Q2 – – No
122 College and Undergraduate Libraries 1.9 58th Q2 ESCI – No
123 Cuadernos.info 1.9 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
124 Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 1.9 58th Q2 – – No
125 Collection Management 1.9 57th Q2 ESCI – No
126 Medical Reference Services Quarterly 1.9 57th Q2 – – No
127 Portal 1.9 57th Q2 SSCI – No
128 International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age 1.9 56th Q2 ESCI – No
129 Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences 1.9 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
130 Development and Learning in Organizations 1.8 56th Q2 – C No
131 DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology 1.8 55th Q2 ESCI – No
132 Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice 1.8 55th Q2 – – Yes
133 Serials Librarian 1.7 55th Q2 – – No
134 Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 1.7 54th Q2 ESCI – No
135 Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences 1.7 54th Q2 ESCI – No
136 Journal of Information Science and Engineering 1.6 54th Q2 SCIE – No
137 Information Retrieval Series 1.6 53rd Q2 – – No
138 Information studies: Theory and Application 1.6 53rd Q2 – – No
139 Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica 1.6 53rd Q2 SSCI – Yes
140 Performance Measurement and Metrics 1.6 52nd Q2 ESCI C No
141 Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 1.6 52nd Q2 ESCI – No
142 International Journal of Media and Information Literacy 1.5 52nd Q2 – – No
143 Archives and Manuscripts 1.5 51st Q2 ESCI – No
144 Information and Culture 1.5 51st Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
145 Technical Services Quarterly 1.5 51st Q2 ESCI – No
146 International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 1.5 50th Q2 – – No
147 Journal of Library Metadata 1.5 50th Q2 – – No
148 Language Documentation and Conservation 1.5 50th Q2 ESCI – Yes
149 Digital Humanities Quarterly 1.5 49th Q3 ESCI – Yes
150 Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 1.5 49th Q3 – – Yes
151 Journal of Open Research Software 1.4 49th Q3 – – Yes
152 Information Research 1.4 48th Q3 SSCI – Yes
153 International Journal of Information Science and Management 1.4 48th Q3 – – Yes
154 International Journal of Information, Diversity and Inclusion 1.4 48th Q3 – – Yes
155 College and Research Libraries News 1.4 47th Q3 – – No
156 Information and Media 1.3 47th Q3 – – Yes
157 Global Intellectual History 1.3 46th Q3 ESCI – No
158 Journal of Library and Information Science in Agriculture 1.3 46th Q3 – – Yes
159 Library and Information Service 1.3 46th Q3 – – No
160 Serials Review 1.3 46th Q3 SSCI – No
161 JLIS.it 1.3 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
162 Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 1.3 45th Q3 – – No
163 Archivaria 1.2 45th Q3 – – No
164 Journal of Modern Information 1.2 44th Q3 – – No
165 Library Resources and Technical Services 1.2 44th Q3 SSCI – Yes
166 Science Editor and Publisher 1.2 44th Q3 – – No
167 International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society 1.2 43rd Q3 – C No
168 Journal of Open Humanities Data 1.2 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
169 Society. Document. Communication 1.2 43rd Q3 – – No
170 Journal of Map and Geography Libraries 1.1 42nd Q3 ESCI – No
171 Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science 1.1 42nd Q3 SSCI – No
172 Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciencia da Informacao 1.1 42nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
173 Investigacion Bibliotecologica 1.1 41st Q3 SSCI – Yes
174 School Library Research 1.1 41st Q3 – – No
175 Scientometrics Research Journal 1.1 41st Q3 – – Yes
176 Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 1.1 40th Q3 ESCI – Yes
177 Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 1.1 40th Q3 – – No
178 Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos 1 40th Q3 ESCI – Yes
179 Encontros Bibli 1 39th Q3 ESCI – Yes
180 Indexer 1 39th Q3 – – No
181 Wacana 1 39th Q3 ESCI – Yes
182 African Journal of Library Archives and Information Science 0.9 38th Q3 SSCI – No
183 Information Services and Use 0.9 38th Q3 – – No
184 International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics 0.9 38th Q3 SCIE – No
185 IP Indian Journal of Library Science and Information Technology 0.9 37th Q3 – – No
186 Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 0.9 37th Q3 – – No
187 Information Design Journal 0.9 36th Q3 – – No
188 Transinformacao 0.9 36th Q3 SSCI – Yes
189 Anuario Electronico de Estudios en Comunicacion Social Disertaciones 0.8 35th Q3 – – Yes
190 Library Trends 0.8 35th Q3 SSCI – No
191 Notes 0.8 35th Q3 AHCI – No
192 Annals of Library and Information Studies 0.8 34th Q3 ESCI – Yes
193 Journal of Hospital Librarianship 0.8 34th Q3 – – No
194 Library Leadership and Management 0.8 34th Q3 – – No
195 Journal of Access Services 0.8 33rd Q3 – – No
196 Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship 0.8 33rd Q3 – – No
197 Music Reference Services Quarterly 0.8 33rd Q3 – – No
198 Folia Toruniensia 0.8 32nd Q3 – – Yes
199 Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao 0.8 32nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
200 Bibliotecas, Anales de Investigacion 0.8 31st Q3 ESCI – No
201 Journal of Information Ethics 0.8 31st Q3 – – No
202 Journal of Library and Information Studies 0.8 31st Q3 ESCI – Yes
203 American Archivist 0.7 30th Q3 – – No
204 Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 0.7 30th Q3 – – Yes
205 Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecologia 0.7 30th Q3 ESCI – Yes
206 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 0.7 29th Q3 – – No
207 Libres 0.7 29th Q3 ESCI – Yes
208 Umanistica Digitale 0.7 29th Q3 – – Yes
209 Desde el Sur 0.7 28th Q3 – – Yes
210 Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 0.7 28th Q3 – – No
211 Vjesnik Bibliotekara Hrvatske 0.6 28th Q3 – – Yes
212 BiD 0.6 27th Q3 ESCI – Yes
213 IC Revista Cientifica de Informacion y Comunicacion 0.6 27th Q3 ESCI – No
214 Methis 0.6 27th Q3 – – Yes
215 Archeion 0.6 26th Q3 – – Yes
216 Law Library Journal 0.6 26th Q3 SSCI – No
217 Scire 0.6 26th Q3 ESCI – Yes
218 Ibersid 0.6 25th Q3 ESCI – No
219 Revista Cubana de Informacion en Ciencias de la Salud 0.6 25th Q3 – – Yes
220 Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services 0.6 25th Q3 – – No
221 Information, Medium, and Society 0.6 24th Q4 – – No
222 International Library of Bioethics 0.6 24th Q4 – – No
223 Palabra Clave (La Plata) 0.6 24th Q4 – – Yes
224 Manuscripta Orientalia 0.5 23rd Q4 – – No
225 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 0.5 23rd Q4 AHCI – No
226 Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion 0.5 23rd Q4 ESCI – No
227 AIB Studi 0.5 22nd Q4 ESCI – Yes
228 Book History 0.5 22nd Q4 ESCI – No
229 International Journal of Legal Information 0.5 22nd Q4 – – No
230 Advances in Library Administration and Organization 0.5 21st Q4 – – No
231 Journal of Archival Organization 0.5 21st Q4 – – No
232 Informacion, Cultura y Sociedad 0.4 21st Q4 – – Yes
233 Bilgi Dunyasi 0.4 20th Q4 – – Yes
234 Proceedings from the Document Academy 0.4 20th Q4 – – Yes
235 Record and Library Journal 0.4 20th Q4 – – Yes
236 Atlanti+ 0.4 19th Q4 – – No
237 Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences 0.4 19th Q4 – – Yes
238 Journal of Payavard Salamat 0.4 19th Q4 – – Yes
239 Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra 0.4 18th Q4 ESCI – Yes
240 Library 0.4 18th Q4 AHCI – No
241 Logos (The Netherlands) 0.4 18th Q4 ESCI – No
242 In Monte Artium 0.4 17th Q4 – – No
243 Slavic and East European Information Resources 0.4 17th Q4 – – No
244 East Asian Publishing and Society 0.3 17th Q4 ESCI – No
245 Bibliotecas 0.3 16th Q4 ESCI – Yes
246 Fontes Artis Musicae 0.3 16th Q4 AHCI – No
247 International Journal of Knowledge Processing Studies 0.3 16th Q4 – – Yes
248 Bibliothecae.it 0.3 15th Q4 – – Yes
249 Moderna Arhivistika 0.3 15th Q4 – – Yes
250 Revista Ibero-Americana de Ciencia da Informacao 0.3 15th Q4 ESCI – Yes
251 Grey Journal 0.3 14th Q4 – – No
252 Knihy a Dejiny 0.3 14th Q4 – – No
253 Knygotyra 0.3 14th Q4 ESCI – Yes
254 Library and Information Science 0.3 14th Q4 SSCI – No
255 Manuscript and Book Heritage of Ukraine 0.3 13th Q4 ESCI – Yes
256 Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries 0.3 13th Q4 – – Yes
257 Art Documentation 0.3 12th Q4 ESCI – No
258 Manuscript Studies 0.3 12th Q4 ESCI – Yes
259 New Directions in Book History 0.2 11th Q4 – – No
260 Notes and Queries 0.2 11th Q4 AHCI – No
261 Biblios 0.2 10th Q4 ESCI – Yes
262 Information-Wissenschaft und Praxis 0.2 10th Q4 ESCI – No
263 Quaerendo 0.2 10th Q4 ESCI – No
264 Teorie Vedy / Theory of Science 0.2 10th Q4 – – Yes
265 AtoZ 0.2 9th Q4 ESCI – Yes
266 Tekst, Kniga, Knigoizdaniye 0.2 9th Q4 ESCI – No
267 Vjesnik Dalmatinskih Arhiva 0.2 9th Q4 – – Yes
268 Arhivski Vjesnik 0.2 8th Q4 – – No
269 Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 0.2 8th Q4 AHCI – No
270 Comma 0.2 8th Q4 – – No
271 IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship 0.2 7th Q4 – – Yes
272 Library of the Written Word 0.2 7th Q4 – – No
273 VOEB-Mitteilungen 0.2 7th Q4 – – Yes
274 Advances in Librarianship 0.1 6th Q4 – – No
275 Computers in Libraries 0.1 6th Q4 – – No
276 Polish Libraries 0.1 6th Q4 – – No
277 Journal of Indian Library Association 0.1 5th Q4 – – No
278 Latvijas Nacionalas Bibliotekas Zinatniskie Raksti 0.1 5th Q4 – – No
279 Z Badan nad Ksiazka i Ksiegozbiorami Historycznymi 0.1 5th Q4 – – Yes
280 Acervo 0.1 4th Q4 ESCI – Yes
281 Zeitschrift fur Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 0.1 4th Q4 SSCI – No
282 Bibliotekarz Podlaski 0.1 3rd Q4 – – No
283 Ciencia da Informacao 0.1 3rd Q4 – – Yes
284 Tuna 0.1 3rd Q4 AHCI – No
285 Archiwa, Biblioteki i Muzea Koscielne 0.1 2nd Q4 ESCI – Yes
286 Przeglad Archiwalny Instytutu Pamieci Narodowej 0.1 2nd Q4 – – No
287 Reference and User Services Quarterly 0.1 2nd Q4 – – No
288 Publishing and Printing 0 2nd Q4 – – No
289 Archives 0 1st Q4 – – No
290 Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France 0 1st Q4 – – No
291 Gazette des Archives 0 0th Q4 – – No
292 Islamic Manuscripts and Books 0 0th Q4 – – No
293 Journal of Codicology and Manuscript Research 0 0th Q4 – – Yes

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