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Library Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0024-2519Verify ISSN ↗1549-652XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 102 / 296 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1981, 1979, 1958, 1951, 1946–1947), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Library Quarterly is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 102 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Library Quarterly 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.425, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
Library Quarterly is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0024-2519 and its online ISSN is 1549-652X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Library Quarterly has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Library Quarterly published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 60. 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.
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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