Library Quarterly

University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 00242519, 1549652X

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SCImago
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Impact factor
1.5
SJR
0.723
CiteScore
2.8
Categories
Library and Information Sciences
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1946-1947, 1951, 1958, 1979, 1981, 1988-2025
journal names
Library Quarterly
LIBR QUART
Publications
8 962
Citations
13 854
h-index
49
Publications
217
Citations
4 634
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 organizations
Florida State University
Florida State University (12 publications)
Drexel University
Drexel University (5 publications)
University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen (1 publication)
University of Denver
University of Denver (1 publication)
Top-3 countries
USA (85 publications)
Canada (6 publications)
Australia (4 publications)
Canada (1 publication)
USA (1 publication)

Most cited in 5 years

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Top-100

Citing journals

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Library Quarterly
1073 citations, 7.75%
Journal of Documentation
795 citations, 5.74%
Library and Information Science Research
438 citations, 3.16%
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
368 citations, 2.66%
Genre Theory in Information Studies
335 citations, 2.42%
Journal of Academic Librarianship
322 citations, 2.32%
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
311 citations, 2.24%
Public Library Quarterly
305 citations, 2.2%
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
284 citations, 2.05%
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
238 citations, 1.72%
Advances in Librarianship
221 citations, 1.6%
SSRN Electronic Journal
216 citations, 1.56%
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science
188 citations, 1.36%
Libri
180 citations, 1.3%
Information Processing and Management
177 citations, 1.28%
Scientometrics
165 citations, 1.19%
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
148 citations, 1.07%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
142 citations, 1.02%
Library Management
127 citations, 0.92%
Reference Services Review
118 citations, 0.85%
Journal of Library Administration
112 citations, 0.81%
Journal of Information Science
109 citations, 0.79%
IFLA Journal
108 citations, 0.78%
Robots in Academic Libraries
99 citations, 0.71%
Library Review
97 citations, 0.7%
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
95 citations, 0.69%
Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Europe
93 citations, 0.67%
New Library World
89 citations, 0.64%
Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
86 citations, 0.62%
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
79 citations, 0.57%
Review of Educational Research
72 citations, 0.52%
Aslib Proceedings
72 citations, 0.52%
Library Hi Tech
66 citations, 0.48%
Education for Information
61 citations, 0.44%
Collection Building
59 citations, 0.43%
Archival Science
58 citations, 0.42%
Reference Librarian
54 citations, 0.39%
Advances in Library Administration and Organization
54 citations, 0.39%
Collection Management
49 citations, 0.35%
Communications in Computer and Information Science
43 citations, 0.31%
Information and Learning Science
43 citations, 0.31%
International Information and Library Review
43 citations, 0.31%
New Review of Academic Librarianship
42 citations, 0.3%
Electronic Library
42 citations, 0.3%
Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication
41 citations, 0.3%
Aslib Journal of Information Management
41 citations, 0.3%
Performance Measurement and Metrics
39 citations, 0.28%
Cataloging and Classification Quarterly
37 citations, 0.27%
Information Development
35 citations, 0.25%
Journal of Educational Research
33 citations, 0.24%
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
30 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Access Services
28 citations, 0.2%
Serials Review
28 citations, 0.2%
Knowledge Organization
26 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Informetrics
25 citations, 0.18%
Australian Academic & Research Libraries
24 citations, 0.17%
Government Information Quarterly
23 citations, 0.17%
Online Information Review
23 citations, 0.17%
Art Documentation
21 citations, 0.15%
Technical Services Quarterly
21 citations, 0.15%
Public Services Quarterly
21 citations, 0.15%
Library and Information History
20 citations, 0.14%
Restaurator
20 citations, 0.14%
Internet Reference Services Quarterly
19 citations, 0.14%
Science and Technology Libraries
19 citations, 0.14%
PLoS ONE
19 citations, 0.14%
New Review of Children s Literature and Librarianship
19 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship
18 citations, 0.13%
BIBLIOTHEK Forschung und Praxis
18 citations, 0.13%
Digital Library Perspectives
17 citations, 0.12%
Library Resources and Technical Services
17 citations, 0.12%
Health Information and Libraries Journal
17 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Library Metadata
15 citations, 0.11%
International Journal of Information Management
15 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Higher Education
15 citations, 0.11%
Bottom Line
15 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Hospital Librarianship
15 citations, 0.11%
Early Childhood Education Journal
14 citations, 0.1%
Sustainability
14 citations, 0.1%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
13 citations, 0.09%
Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian
13 citations, 0.09%
Library Hi Tech News
13 citations, 0.09%
College and Undergraduate Libraries
13 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
13 citations, 0.09%
Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
13 citations, 0.09%
The Semantics of Relationships
13 citations, 0.09%
Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao
12 citations, 0.09%
Medical Reference Services Quarterly
12 citations, 0.09%
Digital Transformation and Society
12 citations, 0.09%
Handbook of Research on Teaching Methods in Language Translation and Interpretation
12 citations, 0.09%
The Australian Library Journal
12 citations, 0.09%
Research on Information Science and Public Libraries
12 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
11 citations, 0.08%
Records Management Journal
11 citations, 0.08%
Information Communication and Society
11 citations, 0.08%
Research Evaluation
11 citations, 0.08%
Social Epistemology
11 citations, 0.08%
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
11 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Information Ethics
10 citations, 0.07%
Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning
10 citations, 0.07%
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Citing publishers

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Emerald
2627 citations, 18.96%
Taylor & Francis
1712 citations, 12.36%
Elsevier
1542 citations, 11.13%
Wiley
1392 citations, 10.05%
University of Chicago Press
1111 citations, 8.02%
SAGE
978 citations, 7.06%
Springer Nature
841 citations, 6.07%
Walter de Gruyter
283 citations, 2.04%
IGI Global
271 citations, 1.96%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
216 citations, 1.56%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
213 citations, 1.54%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
203 citations, 1.47%
Cambridge University Press
137 citations, 0.99%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
107 citations, 0.77%
MDPI
100 citations, 0.72%
Oxford University Press
86 citations, 0.62%
IOS Press
60 citations, 0.43%
IMR Press
30 citations, 0.22%
SciELO
30 citations, 0.22%
Frontiers Media S.A.
23 citations, 0.17%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
22 citations, 0.16%
JMIR Publications
22 citations, 0.16%
American Library Association
21 citations, 0.15%
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
20 citations, 0.14%
Consortium Erudit
17 citations, 0.12%
World Scientific
16 citations, 0.12%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
15 citations, 0.11%
American Psychological Association (APA)
15 citations, 0.11%
CAIRN
15 citations, 0.11%
Korean Society for Information Management
15 citations, 0.11%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
14 citations, 0.1%
Apex Publishing
14 citations, 0.1%
OpenEdition
12 citations, 0.09%
McFarland & Co.
11 citations, 0.08%
IOP Publishing
11 citations, 0.08%
11 citations, 0.08%
MIT Press
10 citations, 0.07%
Unisa Press
10 citations, 0.07%
American Educational Research Association
10 citations, 0.07%
EDP Sciences
9 citations, 0.06%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
9 citations, 0.06%
Instituto Brasileiro de Bibliografia e Documentacao. Conselho nacional de pesquisas
9 citations, 0.06%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
9 citations, 0.06%
Edinburgh University Press
7 citations, 0.05%
University of California Press
7 citations, 0.05%
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
7 citations, 0.05%
Innovative Scholars and Researchers Alliance
7 citations, 0.05%
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
6 citations, 0.04%
EPI SCP
6 citations, 0.04%
Hindawi Limited
6 citations, 0.04%
State Public Scientific Technological Library SB RAS
6 citations, 0.04%
FSBI Russian State Library
6 citations, 0.04%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
6 citations, 0.04%
Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)
6 citations, 0.04%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
5 citations, 0.04%
Pleiades Publishing
5 citations, 0.04%
Duke University Press
5 citations, 0.04%
Mary Ann Liebert
5 citations, 0.04%
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
5 citations, 0.04%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
5 citations, 0.04%
Japan Society of Colour Material
5 citations, 0.04%
Virtus Interpress
5 citations, 0.04%
Ubiquity Press
5 citations, 0.04%
Scientific Research Publishing
5 citations, 0.04%
IntechOpen
5 citations, 0.04%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
4 citations, 0.03%
Trans Tech Publications
4 citations, 0.03%
PeerJ
4 citations, 0.03%
Japan Institute of Metals
4 citations, 0.03%
Vilnius University Press
4 citations, 0.03%
Annual Reviews
4 citations, 0.03%
JSTOR
4 citations, 0.03%
Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information - VINITI RAS
4 citations, 0.03%
Japan Science and Technology Agency
4 citations, 0.03%
SLACK
4 citations, 0.03%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
3 citations, 0.02%
Liverpool University Press
3 citations, 0.02%
Brill
3 citations, 0.02%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
3 citations, 0.02%
AIP Publishing
3 citations, 0.02%
American Accounting Association
3 citations, 0.02%
University of Illinois Press
3 citations, 0.02%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
3 citations, 0.02%
American Economic Association
3 citations, 0.02%
Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecologia
3 citations, 0.02%
BMJ
3 citations, 0.02%
Akademizdatcenter Nauka
3 citations, 0.02%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
3 citations, 0.02%
State Public Scientific-Technical Library
3 citations, 0.02%
Kamla Raj Enterprises
3 citations, 0.02%
F1000 Research
3 citations, 0.02%
AOSIS
3 citations, 0.02%
Intellect
3 citations, 0.02%
University of Victoria Libraries
3 citations, 0.02%
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
2 citations, 0.01%
The Royal Society
2 citations, 0.01%
Indiana University Press
2 citations, 0.01%
Kyushu University
2 citations, 0.01%
Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
2 citations, 0.01%
Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry
2 citations, 0.01%
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Florida State University
12 publications, 0.13%
University of Maryland, College Park
9 publications, 0.1%
Drexel University
5 publications, 0.06%
University of Texas at Austin
5 publications, 0.06%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4 publications, 0.04%
University of Missouri
4 publications, 0.04%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
3 publications, 0.03%
University of Washington
3 publications, 0.03%
University of California, Los Angeles
3 publications, 0.03%
University of Kentucky
3 publications, 0.03%
University of Alabama
3 publications, 0.03%
Tampere University
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Copenhagen
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Pennsylvania
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Iowa
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Oklahoma
2 publications, 0.02%
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
1 publication, 0.01%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
1 publication, 0.01%
Lund University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Borås
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Technology Sydney
1 publication, 0.01%
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
1 publication, 0.01%
National Central University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Strathclyde
1 publication, 0.01%
Griffith University
1 publication, 0.01%
Flinders University
1 publication, 0.01%
Charles Sturt University
1 publication, 0.01%
Columbia University
1 publication, 0.01%
Georgetown University
1 publication, 0.01%
Dalhousie University
1 publication, 0.01%
Arizona State University
1 publication, 0.01%
Duke University Hospital
1 publication, 0.01%
Syracuse University
1 publication, 0.01%
Ohio State University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Arizona
1 publication, 0.01%
Northern Illinois University
1 publication, 0.01%
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
1 publication, 0.01%
Northeastern University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of South Florida
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 publication, 0.01%
Wayne State University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Konstanz
1 publication, 0.01%
Leeds Beckett University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1 publication, 0.01%
East Carolina University
1 publication, 0.01%
Western University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Alberta
1 publication, 0.01%
Wright State University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
1 publication, 0.01%
Elizabeth City State University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Colorado Boulder
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Denver
1 publication, 0.01%
Indiana University Bloomington
1 publication, 0.01%
Texas Tech University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of North Texas
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Texas at Tyler
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Tennessee
1 publication, 0.01%
University of York
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Lethbridge
1 publication, 0.01%
Kent State University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Vermont
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Virginia
1 publication, 0.01%
University of South Carolina
1 publication, 0.01%
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Publishing organizations in 5 years

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University of Copenhagen
1 publication, 0.46%
Elizabeth City State University
1 publication, 0.46%
University of Denver
1 publication, 0.46%
University of South Carolina
1 publication, 0.46%
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USA, 85, 0.95%
USA
85 publications, 0.95%
Canada, 6, 0.07%
Canada
6 publications, 0.07%
Australia, 4, 0.04%
Australia
4 publications, 0.04%
China, 2, 0.02%
China
2 publications, 0.02%
United Kingdom, 2, 0.02%
United Kingdom
2 publications, 0.02%
Finland, 2, 0.02%
Finland
2 publications, 0.02%
Sweden, 2, 0.02%
Sweden
2 publications, 0.02%
Germany, 1, 0.01%
Germany
1 publication, 0.01%
Belgium, 1, 0.01%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.01%
Denmark, 1, 0.01%
Denmark
1 publication, 0.01%
India, 1, 0.01%
India
1 publication, 0.01%
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Publishing countries in 5 years

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USA, 1, 0.46%
USA
1 publication, 0.46%
Canada, 1, 0.46%
Canada
1 publication, 0.46%
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