Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Subfield ranking · 2000
Library and Information Sciences journal rankings 2000
26 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Library and Information Sciences has 26 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.84. The top three are College & Research Libraries, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, and The Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
26 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1College & Research LibrariesOAAssociation of College and Research Libraries · United States | 2.66Q1 | 1.03no 1999 value | 143 | 100% | — | — | |
2Journal of Education for Library and Information ScienceUniversity of Toronto Press | 1.46Q1 | 0.11no 1999 value | 112 | 5% | — | — | |
3The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipElsevier BV · United States | 1.32Q1 | 0.47no 1999 value | 489 | 4% | $3,990 | — | |
4Journal of Librarianship and Information ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 0.44no 1999 value | 107 | 6% | $3,650 | — | |
5LibriOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.15Q1 | 0.41no 1999 value | 81 | 5% | $0 listed | — | |
6Reference Services ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.92Q1 | 0.33no 1999 value | 93 | 3% | — | — | |
7The Library QuarterlyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 0.84Q1 | 0.18no 1999 value | 105 | 0% | — | — | |
8Library ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 0.25no 1999 value | 254 | 1% | — | — | |
9Research StrategiesPergamon Press · United States | 0.79Q2 | 0.26no 1999 value | 85 | 7% | — | — | |
10Australian Academic & Research LibrariesRoutledge · Australia | 0.76Q2 | 0.17no 1999 value | 108 | 94% | — | — | |
11Public Library QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.72Q2 | 0.29no 1999 value | 70 | 0% | — | — | |
12New Review of Academic LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 0.21no 1999 value | 44 | 5% | — | — | |
13Reference & User Services QuarterlyAmerican Library Association · United States | 0.66Q2 | 0.33no 1999 value | 80 | 0% | — | — | |
14Library ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.39no 1999 value | 156 | 1% | — | — | |
15Journal of Library AdministrationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.13no 1999 value | 200 | 0% | — | — | |
16IFLA JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.20no 1999 value | 198 | 7% | $3,650 | — | |
17Journal of Business & Finance LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.22no 1999 value | 108 | 0% | — | — | |
18Library administration & managementBrill · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.21no 1999 value | 33 | 0% | — | — | |
19The Australian Library JournalTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.32Q3 | 0.16no 1999 value | 101 | 84% | — | — | |
20School Libraries WorldwideInternational Association of School Librarianship · Canada | 0.27Q3 | 0.03no 1999 value | 45 | 100% | — | — | |
21The International Information & Library ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 0.08no 1999 value | 186 | 0% | — | — | |
22Alexandria The Journal of National and International Library and Information IssuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.18Q4 | 0.35no 1999 value | 45 | 7% | $3,400 | — | |
23College & Research Libraries NewsOAAssociation of College and Research Libraries · United States | 0.14Q4 | 0.05no 1999 value | 486 | 99% | — | — | |
24College & Undergraduate LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.04Q4 | 0.05no 1999 value | 70 | 0% | — | — | |
25Behavioral & Social Sciences LibrarianTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no 1999 value | 51 | 0% | — | — | |
25Maine policy reviewOAUnited States | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no 1999 value | 50 | 100% | — | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Library and Information Sciences highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science588
- Education306
- Political Science and International Relations185
- Public Administration39
- Communication28
- Gender Studies28
- Linguistics and Language28
- Safety Research27
- Health26
- Law26
- Library and Information Sciences26
- Anthropology24
- Transportation22
- Urban Studies17
- Demography16
- Geography, Planning and Development12
- Cultural Studies7
- Development1
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Human Factors and Ergonomics0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
8 additional Library and Information Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 26
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,623 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.63 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 26 | 26 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 30 | 30 | 34 | 36 | 36 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 44 | 43 | 41 | 42 | 44 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 38 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 2,623 | 2,730 | 3,048 | 3,403 | 3,671 | 3,772 | 3,878 | 4,238 | 4,743 | 5,234 | 5,613 | 5,920 | 6,171 | 6,083 | 5,893 | 5,519 | 5,326 | 5,069 | 4,955 | 4,770 | 4,650 | 4,610 | 4,529 | 4,380 | 4,109 | 4,152 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.678 | 0.77 | 0.87 | 0.74 | 0.680 | 0.96 | 0.946 | 0.953 | 0.83 | 0.9227 | 1.28 | 1.29 | 1.39 | 1.1000 | 1.19 | 1.08 | 1.1002 | 0.954 | 0.9228 | 0.995 | 0.88 | 0.94 | 0.75 | 0.86 | 0.79 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.