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Library Resources and Technical Services is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by American Library Association.
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ISSN 0024-2527Verify ISSN ↗2159-9610Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Library Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 164 / 296 | 44th | Q3 |
| Information Systems | 370 / 519 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1981–1984, 1978–1979), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Library Resources and Technical Services is Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 164 of 296) and Q3 in Information Systems (rank 370 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Library Resources and Technical Services 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.248, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
Library Resources and Technical Services is published by American Library Association. Its print ISSN is 0024-2527 and its online ISSN is 2159-9610.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Library Resources and Technical Services has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Library Resources and Technical Services published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 43. 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 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (90.8%), Canada (3.4%) and United Kingdom (1.7%). 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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