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Records Management Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0956-5698Verify ISSN ↗1758-7689Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 92 / 296 | 69th | Q2 |
| Management Information Systems | 80 / 143 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1989–1991), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Records Management Journal is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 92 of 296) and Q3 in Management Information Systems (rank 80 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
Records Management Journal 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.306, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
Records Management Journal is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0956-5698 and its online ISSN is 1758-7689.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Records Management Journal has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 2.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Records Management Journal published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 26. 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 South Africa (13.6%), United States (8.6%) and Tanzania (7.2%).
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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