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Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0006-128XVerify ISSN ↗2377-6528Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 252 / 1186 | 78th | Q1 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 226 / 296 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1941 (also 1947, 1970–1972, 1979, 1989, 1993, 1995, 2004–2005, 2008–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 252 of 1186) and Q4 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 226 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0006-128X and its online ISSN is 2377-6528.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #260 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 59. 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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