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A bibliometrician comparing citation performance across library science periodicals using The Library Quarterly's 5-year Impact Factor (1.5) alongside its 2-year JIF (0.9) to account for longer citation windows in the social sciences.
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A research administrator applying responsible assessment principles by evaluating a scholar's specific methodological contributions rather than relying on The Library Quarterly journal impact factor as a surrogate for individual paper quality.
Editorial commentary
Quick answer: The Library Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal in library and information science published by the University of Chicago Press (print ISSN 0024-2519, electronic ISSN 1549-652X). OpenAlex reports a 2-year mean citedness of 1.34 for it. The official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is published each year in Journal Citation Reports and should be read there for the current year.
What Is The Library Quarterly?
The Library Quarterly is an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. Crossref lists registered articles from 1931 onward, and OpenAlex gives the journal’s official website as journals.uchicago.edu/lq. People often search for it as the library quarterly journal. It belongs to the field of library science and sits close to information science.
What Is the Library Quarterly Impact Factor?
The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is calculated by Clarivate and published in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). It divides the citations received in a given JCR year by items the journal published in the previous two years by the number of citable items it published in those two years. For the current Library Quarterly impact factor, and for the 5-year figure, read the journal’s entry in JCR or on the Clarivate Master Journal List rather than relying on third-party sites, which often report different numbers for different years. For the general concept, see Journal Impact Factor.
Citation and Publication Metrics from OpenAlex and Crossref
Open bibliographic databases give figures that anyone can check, as of 2026-11-07:
- OpenAlex works and citations: 9,589 works and 28,130 total citations.
- OpenAlex 2-year mean citedness: 1.34. This is an OpenAlex indicator and is not the same as the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor.
- OpenAlex h-index and i10-index: 72 and 575.
- Crossref registered DOIs: 9,573 in total (87 current and 9,486 backfile).
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press.
Scopus reports a separate indicator, CiteScore, which differs from the JIF in its method and in the journals it covers.
Using Journal Metrics Responsibly
A journal-level number says little about any single article. Library and information science research often relies on qualitative methods, policy analysis and case studies, and these tend to be cited at different rates than work in other fields. As discussed in our entries on the Scientific Reports Impact Factor and the Heliyon Impact Factor, a single JIF obscures large variation between articles, and responsible assessment practice cautions against using it as a proxy for the quality of an individual researcher’s work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who publishes The Library Quarterly?
The University of Chicago Press, according to both OpenAlex and Crossref.
What are the ISSNs of The Library Quarterly?
The print ISSN is 0024-2519 and the electronic ISSN is 1549-652X, as listed by Crossref.
Where can I find the current impact factor of The Library Quarterly?
In Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports, under the journal’s entry. Open databases such as OpenAlex give other indicators, for example a 2-year mean citedness of 1.34, which should be labelled as such and not reported as the JIF.
How many articles has The Library Quarterly published?
OpenAlex records 9,589 works and Crossref has 9,573 registered DOIs for the journal as of 2026-11-07. The two counts differ because the databases index differently.
Sources
- OpenAlex API, source record for ISSN 0024-2519: https://api.openalex.org/sources?filter=issn:0024-2519 (checked 2026-11-07).
- Crossref API, journal record for ISSN 0024-2519: https://api.crossref.org/journals/0024-2519 (checked 2026-11-07).
- Clarivate Master Journal List, where the journal’s indexing and Journal Citation Reports entry can be looked up: https://mjl.clarivate.com/ (checked 2026-11-07).
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