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Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3), DOAJ. Published by University of the Punjab.
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ISSN 2409-7462Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of the Punjab
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 258 / 296 | 13th | Q4 |
| Computer Science Applications | 969 / 1022 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2014–2024), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries is Q4 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 258 of 296) and Q4 in Computer Science Applications (rank 969 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.130, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries is published by University of the Punjab. Its ISSN is 2409-7462.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #182 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 32. 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 17 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Pakistan (58.8%), Malaysia (20.6%) and Australia (5.9%). 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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