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Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Escola de Ciencia da Informacao da UFMG.
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ISSN 1413-9936Verify ISSN ↗1981-5344Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Escola de Ciencia da Informacao da UFMG
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 200 / 296 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Communication | 379 / 541 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao is Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 200 of 296) and Q3 in Communication (rank 379 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.195, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao is published by Escola de Ciencia da Informacao da UFMG. Its print ISSN is 1413-9936 and its online ISSN is 1981-5344.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #130 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 62. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (92.5%), Portugal (3.5%) and Spain (2%). 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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