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Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS SSCI. Published by Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology.
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ISSN 1394-6234Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 170 / 296 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science is Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 170 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.214, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science is published by Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology. Its ISSN is 1394-6234.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #153 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 24. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (34.2%), China (11.6%) and Iran (9.1%).
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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