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Best Library and Information Sciences journals

293 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Library and Information Sciences. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 74 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 International Journal of Information Management 54.4 99th Q1 SSCI A No
2 International Journal of Information Management Data Insights 25.1 99th Q1 Yes
3 Government Information Quarterly 23.9 99th Q1 SSCI A No
4 European Journal of Information Systems 20.7 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
5 Journal of Enterprise Information Management 19.6 98th Q1 SSCI A No
6 Information Processing and Management 16.8 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
7 Journal of Information Technology 16.3 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
8 Library Hi Tech 15.6 97th Q1 No
9 Education and Information Technologies 15.5 97th Q1 SSCI No
10 Information Technology and People 15.5 96th Q1 SSCI A No
11 Information Systems Research 13.8 96th Q1 SSCI A* No
12 Library Hi Tech News 13.3 96th Q1 No
13 Telecommunications Policy 12.7 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
14 Information Systems Management 12.3 95th Q1 SCIE A No
15 International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval 11.4 95th Q1 SCIE No
16 VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 11.3 94th Q1 ESCI B No
17 Social Science Computer Review 11.2 94th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
18 Data and Information Management 11.1 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
19 International Journal of Geographical Information Science 10.9 93th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
20 Ethics and Information Technology 10.6 93th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
21 Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 10.6 93th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
22 Information Communication and Society 10.4 92th Q1 SSCI A No
23 Knowledge Management Research and Practice 10.3 92th Q1 SSCI A No
24 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 9.8 92th Q1 No
25 Bottom Line 9.8 91th Q1 ESCI C No
26 Journal of Cheminformatics 9.8 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
27 Big Data and Society 9.7 91th Q1 SSCI Yes
28 Information and Organization 9.6 90th Q1 SSCI A* No
29 Scientific Data 9.6 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
30 Journal of Decision Systems 9 90th Q1 ESCI B No
31 Information Development 9 89th Q1 SSCI No
32 Information Discovery and Delivery 8.9 89th Q1 ESCI C No
33 Journal of Information Science 8.8 89th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
34 Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 8.8 88th Q1 SCIE No
35 Aslib Journal of Information Management 8.5 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
36 Online Information Review 8.4 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
37 Quantitative Science Studies 8 87th Q1 ESCI Yes
38 Kybernetes 7.7 87th Q1 SCIE No
39 Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 7.4 86th Q1 ESCI B No
40 Journal of the Medical Library Association 7.2 86th Q1 SSCI Yes
41 Digital Transformation and Society 7 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
42 Scientometrics 6.9 85th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A No
43 Journal of Informetrics 6.7 85th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
44 Information and Learning Science 6.5 85th Q1 ESCI No
45 Accountability in Research 6.4 84th Q1 SCIE No
46 Data Intelligence 6 84th Q1 ESCI No
47 Learned Publishing 5.8 84th Q1 SSCI No
48 Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 5.8 83th Q1 SSCI No
49 Journal of Documentation 5.7 83th Q1 SSCI B No
50 Publications 5.7 83th Q1 ESCI Yes
51 Journal of Web Librarianship 5.7 82th Q1 ESCI No
52 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 5.6 82th Q1 ESCI A No
53 Computers in the Schools 5.5 82th Q1 ESCI No
54 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 5.5 81th Q1 SCIE No
55 Language Resources and Evaluation 5.4 81th Q1 SCIE No
56 Science and Technology Libraries 5.4 81th Q1 No
57 Internet Reference Services Quarterly 5.4 80th Q1 No
58 Journal of Academic Librarianship 5.4 80th Q1 SSCI No
59 Indian Journal of Information Sources and Services 5.3 80th Q1 No
60 Library and Information Science Research 5.2 79th Q1 SSCI No
61 Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 5.2 79th Q1 ESCI Yes
62 Data Technologies and Applications 4.9 79th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
63 Open Information Science 4.8 78th Q1 Yes
64 Informing Science 4.7 78th Q1 No
65 Open Praxis 4.7 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
66 International Journal on Digital Libraries 4.7 77th Q1 ESCI No
67 New Review of Academic Librarianship 4.6 77th Q1 ESCI No
68 Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association 4.5 77th Q1 SSCI No
69 World Patent Information 4.5 76th Q1 ESCI No
70 Electronic Library 4.4 76th Q1 SSCI No
71 Journal of Health Communication 4.1 76th Q1 SSCI No
72 Acta Informatica Pragensia 4.1 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
73 Health Information and Libraries Journal 4.1 75th Q1 SSCI No
74 Journal of Classification 4 75th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
75 Digital Library Perspectives 3.8 74th Q2 ESCI No
76 Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics 3.8 74th Q2 ESCI Yes
77 Archival Science 3.6 74th Q2 ESCI No
78 Research Evaluation 3.6 73th Q2 SSCI C No
79 IFLA Journal 3.6 73th Q2 ESCI No
80 Reference Services Review 3.6 73th Q2 SSCI No
81 Iberoamerican Journal of Science Measurement and Communication 3.5 72th Q2 No
82 Library Management 3.4 72th Q2 ESCI C No
83 Public Library Quarterly 3.3 72th Q2 ESCI No
84 Reference Librarian 3.3 71th Q2 No
85 College and Research Libraries 3.2 71th Q2 SSCI Yes
86 Journal of Data and Information Science 3.2 71th Q2 ESCI Yes
87 Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases 3.1 70th Q2 No
88 Information Technology and Libraries 3 70th Q2 SCIE, SSCI Yes
89 Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture 3 70th Q2 Yes
90 Records Management Journal 2.9 69th Q2 ESCI C No
91 Collection and Curation 2.9 69th Q2 ESCI No
92 Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship 2.9 69th Q2 ESCI No
93 Interacting with Computers 2.9 68th Q2 SCIE, SSCI B No
94 F1000Research 2.9 68th Q2 Yes
95 Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 2.8 68th Q2 Yes
96 Journal of Information Literacy 2.8 67th Q2 Yes
97 Journal of Information and Knowledge Management 2.7 67th Q2 ESCI C No
98 Journal of Library Science in China 2.7 67th Q2 No
99 Intelligent Systems Reference Library 2.6 66th Q2 No
100 Knowledge Cultures 2.6 66th Q2 No

Rank and percentile are within the Library and Information Sciences Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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