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Technical Services Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0731-7131Verify ISSN ↗1555-3337Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 143 / 296 | 51st | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 725 / 1022 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Technical Services Quarterly is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 143 of 296) and Q3 in Computer Science Applications (rank 725 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Technical Services Quarterly 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.405, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
Technical Services Quarterly is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0731-7131 and its online ISSN is 1555-3337.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Technical Services Quarterly has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #141 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Technical Services Quarterly published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 124. 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 83 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (88%), Canada (2.4%) and Australia (1.2%). 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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