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Reference Services Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 0090-7324Verify ISSN ↗2054-1716Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 78 / 296 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Reference Services Review is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 78 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Reference Services Review is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.512, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
Reference Services Review is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0090-7324 and its online ISSN is 2054-1716.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Reference Services Review has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 1.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #98 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Reference Services Review published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 48. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (64.6%), Canada (6.1%) and South Africa (4%). 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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