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Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0210-0614Verify ISSN ↗1988-4621Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 137 / 296 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 1984), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 137 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.329, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica is published by CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Its print ISSN is 0210-0614 and its online ISSN is 1988-4621.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #164 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 46. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Spain (70.9%), Brazil (5.4%) and Colombia (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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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