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Reference and User Services Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by American Library Association.
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ISSN 1094-9054Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Library Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 288 / 296 | 2nd | Q4 |
| Information Systems | 508 / 519 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2021, 1997–2019), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Reference and User Services Quarterly is Q4 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 288 of 296) and Q4 in Information Systems (rank 508 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Reference and User Services Quarterly 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 2nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 41.
Reference and User Services Quarterly is published by American Library Association. Its ISSN is 1094-9054.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Reference and User Services Quarterly has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #211 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Reference and User Services Quarterly published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 210. 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 11 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (77.3%), Canada (13.6%) and India (9.1%). 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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