If you looking for Scopus indexed library science journals, then you are at the right place. This blog post aims to provide the list of library science journals indexed in Scopus.
Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database, launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences. The Top 100 Scopus-indexed library science journals are provided below.
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List of Scopus indexed library science journals
S. No. | Journal Title | CiteScore |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Journal of Information Management | 18.1 |
| 2 | Government Information Quarterly | 11.6 |
| 3 | Journal of Information Technology | 11.3 |
| 4 | Information and Organization | 9.7 |
| 5 | Information Communication and Society | 9.7 |
| 6 | Journal of Cheminformatics (Open Access) | 9.5 |
| 7 | Scientific dataOpen Access | 8.9 |
| 8 | Information Processing and Management | 8.6 |
| 9 | Journal of Informetrics | 8.6 |
| 10 | International Journal of Geographical Information Science | 8.2 |
| 11 | Big Data and SocietyOpen Access | 8.1 |
| 12 | European Journal of Information Systems | 7.7 |
| 13 | Information Systems Research | 7.3 |
| 14 | Social Science Computer Review | 7.2 |
| 15 | Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology | 6.6 |
| 16 | International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval | 6.4 |
| 17 | Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling | 6.4 |
| 18 | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | 6.3 |
| 19 | Personal and Ubiquitous Computing | 6.0 |
| 20 | Journal of Information Science | 5.9 |
| 21 | Education and Information Technologies | 5.4 |
| 22 | Scientometrics | 5.2 |
| 23 | Information Retrieval | 5.1 |
| 24 | Telecommunications Policy | 5.1 |
| 25 | Research Evaluation | 4.9 |
| 26 | Ethics and Information Technology | 4.4 |
| 27 | Information Technology and People | 4.4 |
| 28 | Knowledge Management Research and Practice | 4.3 |
| 29 | College and Research Libraries (Open Access) | 3.9 |
| 30 | International Journal on Digital Libraries | 3.9 |
| 31 | VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems | 3.9 |
| 32 | Library and Information Science Research | 3.7 |
| 33 | Health Information and Libraries Journal | 3.6 |
| 34 | Online Information Review | 3.6 |
| 35 | Journal of Health Communication | 3.5 |
| 36 | Language Resources and Evaluation | 3.5 |
| 37 | Information Systems Management | 3.4 |
| 38 | Interacting with Computers | 3.4 |
| 39 | International Journal of Law and Information Technology | 3.4 |
| 40 | Aslib Journal of Information Management | 3.3 |
| 41 | Information Development | 3.2 |
| 42 | Library Hi Tech | 3.2 |
| 43 | Bottom Line | 3.1 |
| 44 | Profesional de la Informacion | 3.1 |
| 45 | Journal of Librarianship and Information Science | 3.0 |
| 46 | Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLAOpen Access | 3.0 |
| 47 | Library Quarterly | 2.9 |
| 48 | Journal of Documentation | 2.8 |
| 49 | Journal of Academic Librarianship | 2.7 |
| 50 | Data Technologies and Applications | 2.6 |
| 51 | Electronic Library | 2.6 |
| 52 | PublicationsOpen Access | 2.6 |
| 53 | Journal of Decision Systems | 2.5 |
| 54 | Journal of Information LiteracyOpen Access | 2.5 |
| 55 | Journal of Open Research SoftwareOpen Access | 2.5 |
| 56 | Accountability in Research | 2.4 |
| 57 | Informing Science | 2.3 |
| 58 | Journal of Classification | 2.3 |
| 59 | Information Discovery and Delivery | 2.2 |
| 60 | Medical Reference Services Quarterly | 2.2 |
| 61 | Computers in the Schools | 2.1 |
| 62 | Knowledge Cultures | 2.1 |
| 63 | Portal | 2.1 |
| 64 | Communications in Information LiteracyOpen Access | 2.0 |
| 65 | IFLA Journal | 2.0 |
| 66 | New Review of Academic Librarianship | 2.0 |
| 67 | Performance Measurement and Metrics | 2.0 |
| 68 | Revista Espanola de Documentacion CientificaOpen Access | 2.0 |
| 69 | Archival Science | 1.9 |
| 70 | Information ResearchOpen Access | 1.9 |
| 71 | International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics | 1.9 |
| 72 | Journal of Web Librarianship | 1.9 |
| 73 | Records Management Journal | 1.9 |
| 74 | Reference Librarian | 1.9 |
| 75 | DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology | 1.8 |
| 76 | Information and Learning Science | 1.8 |
| 77 | Journal of Data and Information Science | 1.8 |
| 78 | College and Undergraduate Libraries | 1.7 |
| 79 | Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication | 1.7 |
| 80 | Information Services and Use | 1.7 |
| 81 | Internet Reference Services Quarterly | 1.7 |
| 82 | Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning | 1.7 |
| 83 | Knowledge Organization | 1.7 |
| 84 | Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science | 1.7 |
| 85 | Reference Services Review | 1.7 |
| 86 | Social Science Information | 1.7 |
| 87 | World Patent Information | 1.7 |
| 88 | Information Resources Management Journal | 1.6 |
| 89 | Journal of Map and Geography Libraries | 1.6 |
| 90 | Reference and User Services Quarterly | 1.6 |
| 91 | Journal of Information and Knowledge Management | 1.5 |
| 92 | LIBER QuarterlyOpen Access | 1.5 |
| 93 | Library Management | 1.5 |
| 94 | Science and Technology Libraries | 1.5 |
| 95 | Collection Management | 1.4 |
| 96 | Insights: the UKSG JournalOpen Access | 1.4 |
| 97 | Journal of Library Administration | 1.4 |
| 98 | Cuadernos.info (Open Access) | 1.3 |
| 99 | Education for Information | 1.3 |
| 100 | Information Technology and LibrariesOpen Access | 1.3 |
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