Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Library and Information Sciences journal rankings 2013
41 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Library and Information Sciences has 41 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2012 to 1.39, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.46. The top three are College & Research Libraries, Journal of Library Administration, and Reference Services Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
41 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1College & Research LibrariesOAAssociation of College and Research Libraries · United States | 5.88Q1 | 3.71 1.02 up from 2012 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
2Journal of Library AdministrationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.03Q1 | 1.62 0.20 down from 2012 | 178 | 18% | — | ||
3Reference Services ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 1.72 0.24 up from 2012 | 142 | 8% | — | ||
4College & Undergraduate LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.45Q1 | 1.39 0.88 up from 2012 | 93 | 7% | — | ||
5portal Libraries and the AcademyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 2.95Q1 | 1.56 0.77 up from 2012 | 113 | 16% | — | ||
6New Review of Academic LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 1.31 0.09 up from 2012 | 50 | 17% | — | ||
7Library trendsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 2.91Q1 | 1.44 0.37 up from 2012 | 126 | 24% | — | ||
8The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipElsevier BV · United States | 2.70Q1 | 1.34 0.15 down from 2012 | 278 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
9Journal of Education for Library and Information ScienceUniversity of Toronto Press | 2.64Q1 | 1.57 0.87 up from 2012 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
10Journal of Librarianship and Information ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 0.97 0.10 up from 2012 | 88 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
11Journal of Information LiteracyOAChartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 1.00 0.48 down from 2012 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
12Library ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.30Q2 | 1.34 0.52 up from 2012 | 204 | 8% | — | ||
13The Library QuarterlyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.22Q2 | 1.16 0.23 up from 2012 | 82 | 8% | — | ||
14The International Information & Library ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.09Q2 | 0.82 0.02 up from 2012 | 176 | 10% | — | ||
15IFLA JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.07Q2 | 0.90 0.49 up from 2012 | 113 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
16Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance LearningTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.86Q2 | 0.63 0.13 up from 2012 | 92 | 0% | — | ||
17LibriOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.73Q2 | 0.80 0.11 down from 2012 | 85 | 32% | $0 listed | ||
18Library ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 0.99 0.39 up from 2012 | 269 | 4% | — | ||
19Public & Access Services QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.57Q2 | 0.31 0.81 down from 2012 | 124 | 2% | — | ||
20Communications in Information LiteracyOACommunications in Information Literacy · United States | 1.57Q2 | 0.63 0.16 down from 2012 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
21Australian Academic & Research LibrariesRoutledge · Australia | 1.39Q2 | 0.60no change | 140 | 98% | — | ||
22Behavioral & Social Sciences LibrarianTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.28Q3 | 0.79 0.16 down from 2012 | 56 | 8% | — | ||
23Performance Measurement and MetricsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.19Q3 | 0.73 0.32 down from 2012 | 63 | 21% | — | ||
24Public Library QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.17Q3 | 0.60 0.18 down from 2012 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
25Journal of Business & Finance LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q3 | 0.80 0.46 up from 2012 | 100 | 3% | — | ||
26Partnership The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and ResearchOAThe Partnership · Canada | 0.95Q3 | 0.53 0.15 up from 2012 | 113 | 100% | — | ||
27Canadian Journal of Information and Library ScienceOACanadian Association for Information Science · Canada | 0.90Q3 | 0.51 0.04 down from 2012 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
28The Australian Library JournalTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.87Q3 | 0.44 0.03 up from 2012 | 90 | 96% | — | ||
29Library and Information ResearchOALibrary and Information Research Group · United Kingdom | 0.86Q3 | 0.39 0.06 up from 2012 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
30Evidence Based Library and Information PracticeOAUniversity of Alberta · Canada | 0.70Q3 | 0.37 0.02 up from 2012 | 241 | 100% | — | ||
31College & Research Libraries NewsOAAssociation of College and Research Libraries · United States | 0.67Q3 | 0.34 0.01 down from 2012 | 571 | 98% | — | ||
32Reference & User Services QuarterlyAmerican Library Association · United States | 0.52Q4 | 0.23 0.02 down from 2012 | 568 | 73% | — | ||
33Community & Junior College LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.50Q4 | 0.29 0.12 up from 2012 | 83 | 0% | — | ||
34Journal of Access ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.26 0.02 down from 2012 | 71 | 3% | — | ||
35Library and Leadership ManagementPublisher not listed | 0.23Q4 | 0.21 0.19 up from 2012 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
36Alexandria The Journal of National and International Library and Information IssuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.21Q4 | 0.07 0.16 down from 2012 | 44 | 23% | $3,400 | ||
37The Southeastern LibrarianOAUnited States | 0.20Q4 | 0.12 0.12 up from 2012 | 63 | 75% | — | ||
38Virginia LibrariesOAVirginia Tech University Libraries · United States | 0.20Q4 | 0.07 0.07 up from 2012 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
39Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher EducationOAUniversity of Bergen · Norway | 0.19Q4 | 0.27 0.22 up from 2012 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
40Maine policy reviewOAUnited States | 0.13Q4 | 0.12 0.07 up from 2012 | 90 | 100% | — | ||
41CodexUnited States | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 43 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Library and Information Sciences highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,090
- Education598
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Communication57
- Gender Studies55
- Safety Research51
- Public Administration49
- Health47
- Transportation42
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Law40
- Linguistics and Language40
- Urban Studies39
- Anthropology37
- Demography34
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 41
- Window papers (baseline)
- 6,083 +8.4% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.39 +50.1% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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 |
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| 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.