Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Library and Information Sciences journal rankings 2009
36 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Library and Information Sciences has 36 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2008 to 0.83, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.95. The top three are College & Research Libraries, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, and Library trends.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
36 ranked journals
Filters
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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1College & Research LibrariesOAAssociation of College and Research Libraries · United States | 4.36Q1 | 1.99 0.09 up from 2008 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
2The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipElsevier BV · United States | 2.85Q1 | 1.32 0.03 down from 2008 | 291 | 2% | $3,990 | ||
3Library trendsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 2.64Q1 | 0.91 0.13 up from 2008 | 165 | 92% | — | ||
4The Library QuarterlyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.57Q1 | 0.93 0.42 up from 2008 | 92 | 8% | — | ||
5Reference Services ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 1.11 0.08 down from 2008 | 131 | 5% | — | ||
6Library ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 0.98 0.42 up from 2008 | 412 | 3% | — | ||
7portal Libraries and the AcademyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 2.27Q1 | 0.80 0.38 down from 2008 | 167 | 9% | — | ||
8Performance Measurement and MetricsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 1.07 0.15 down from 2008 | 69 | 0% | — | ||
9Journal of Librarianship and Information ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 0.86 0.39 down from 2008 | 51 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of Education for Library and Information ScienceUniversity of Toronto Press | 1.85Q2 | 0.75 0.20 up from 2008 | 53 | 0% | — | ||
11LibriOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.57Q2 | 0.54 0.14 up from 2008 | 78 | 14% | $0 listed | ||
12Journal of Library AdministrationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.52Q2 | 0.44 0.13 down from 2008 | 150 | 1% | — | ||
13College & Undergraduate LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.40Q2 | 0.40 0.11 down from 2008 | 96 | 0% | — | ||
14Library ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 0.57 0.03 down from 2008 | 232 | 5% | — | ||
15The International Information & Library ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 0.48no change | 164 | 1% | — | ||
16Journal of Business & Finance LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 0.39 0.12 up from 2008 | 134 | 0% | — | ||
17IFLA JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 0.23 0.10 down from 2008 | 167 | 29% | $3,650 | ||
18Australian Academic & Research LibrariesRoutledge · Australia | 0.88Q2 | 0.29 0.04 down from 2008 | 119 | 96% | — | ||
19Reference & User Services QuarterlyAmerican Library Association · United States | 0.79Q3 | 0.28 0.05 up from 2008 | 461 | 91% | — | ||
20The Australian Library JournalTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.75Q3 | 0.22 0.12 up from 2008 | 90 | 95% | — | ||
21Public Library QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.74Q3 | 0.23 0.09 up from 2008 | 78 | 0% | — | ||
22School Libraries WorldwideInternational Association of School Librarianship · Canada | 0.72Q3 | 0.34 0.13 up from 2008 | 83 | 0% | — | ||
23Journal of Information LiteracyOAChartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.24 0.05 down from 2008 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
24Evidence Based Library and Information PracticeOAUniversity of Alberta · Canada | 0.55Q3 | 0.28 0.04 up from 2008 | 210 | 100% | — | ||
25College & Research Libraries NewsOAAssociation of College and Research Libraries · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.23 0.06 up from 2008 | 556 | 99% | — | ||
26Library and Information ResearchOALibrary and Information Research Group · United Kingdom | 0.40Q3 | 0.20 0.03 up from 2008 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
27Partnership The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and ResearchOAThe Partnership · Canada | 0.33Q3 | 0.14 0.01 up from 2008 | 132 | 100% | — | ||
28Alexandria The Journal of National and International Library and Information IssuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.31Q4 | 0.10 0.03 down from 2008 | 46 | 9% | $3,400 | ||
29Library and Leadership ManagementPublisher not listed | 0.27Q4 | 0.17 0.05 up from 2008 | 96 | 0% | — | ||
30The Southeastern LibrarianOAUnited States | 0.22Q4 | 0.04 0.03 down from 2008 | 90 | 85% | — | ||
31Behavioral & Social Sciences LibrarianTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.11 0.18 down from 2008 | 59 | 6% | — | ||
32Community & Junior College LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.20Q4 | 0.07 0.12 down from 2008 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
33Public & Access Services QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.20Q4 | 0.08 0.03 down from 2008 | 108 | 3% | — | ||
34Maine policy reviewOAUnited States | 0.20Q4 | 0.17 0.11 up from 2008 | 64 | 94% | — | ||
35Journal of Access ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.05 0.05 down from 2008 | 107 | 4% | — | ||
36Virginia LibrariesOAVirginia Tech University Libraries · United States | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 0.02 down from 2008 | 59 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Library and Information Sciences highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science899
- Education464
- Political Science and International Relations260
- Gender Studies50
- Communication48
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Health36
- Library and Information Sciences36
- Anthropology35
- Law34
- Transportation33
- Demography29
- Urban Studies28
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
9 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 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 36
- Window papers (baseline)
- 5,234 +35.0% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.83 -13.4% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.