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Library Hi Tech is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.6), ABS / AJG 1. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 0737-8831Verify ISSN ↗2054-166XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 8 / 296 | 97th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 31 / 519 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.6.
Library Hi Tech is Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 8 of 296) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 31 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Library Hi Tech 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 15.6, quartile Q1, 97th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.528, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 59.
Library Hi Tech is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0737-8831 and its online ISSN is 2054-166X.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Library Hi Tech has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 4.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Library Hi Tech published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 120. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (41%), Taiwan (12%) and India (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 20 retracted papers are recorded (8.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 7 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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