Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Legal Reference Services Quarterly

Country

United States

Universities and research institutions in United States
Media Ranking in United States

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

H-Index

8

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

0270319X, 1540949X

Coverage

1981-2023

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Scope

An important forum for daily problems and issues, Legal Reference Services Quarterly will assist you in your day-to-day work as it has been helping other law librarians and members of the legal profession for over a decade. You will find articles that are serious, humorous, critical, or simply helpful to the working librarian. Annotated subject bibliographies, overviews of legal literature, reviews of commonly used tools, and the inclusion of reference problems unique to corporate law libraries, judicial libraries, and academic collections will keep you up-to-date on the continuously expanding volume of legal materials and their use in legal research. Numerous articles have already had a significant impact in the legal reference community. Articles on LEXIS and WESTLAW have also been among the most cited and reflect the journal's interest in featuring new bibliographic databases. Legal Reference Services Quarterly offers all of the best resources to help you give patrons important and relevant materials for their research and professional needs. Special thematic issues of the journal have covered such topics as: -Federal regulatory research-selected agency knowledge paths- Law library collection development in the digital age- Teamwork and collaboration in libraries-tools for theory and practice- Public services issues with rare and archival law materials- Teaching legal research and providing access to electronic resources- Emerging solutions in reference services-implications for libraries in the new millennium- Law librarians abroad- The political economy of legal information- Symposium of law publishers- The legal bibliography-tradition, transitions, and trends- Practical approaches to legal research Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Law1999Q4
Law2000Q4
Law2001Q4
Law2002Q3
Law2003Q4
Law2004Q4
Law2005Q4
Law2006Q4
Law2007Q4
Law2008Q4
Law2009Q4
Law2010Q3
Law2011Q3
Law2012Q3
Law2013Q3
Law2014Q3
Law2015Q2
Law2016Q3
Law2017Q3
Law2018Q3
Law2019Q4
Law2020Q4
Law2021Q4
Law2022Q4
Law2023Q3
Library and Information Sciences1999Q4
Library and Information Sciences2000Q4
Library and Information Sciences2001Q4
Library and Information Sciences2002Q4
Library and Information Sciences2003Q4
Library and Information Sciences2004Q4
Library and Information Sciences2005Q4
Library and Information Sciences2006Q4
Library and Information Sciences2007Q4
Library and Information Sciences2008Q4
Library and Information Sciences2009Q4
Library and Information Sciences2010Q3
Library and Information Sciences2011Q3
Library and Information Sciences2012Q4
Library and Information Sciences2013Q3
Library and Information Sciences2014Q3
Library and Information Sciences2015Q2
Library and Information Sciences2016Q3
Library and Information Sciences2017Q3
Library and Information Sciences2018Q3
Library and Information Sciences2019Q4
Library and Information Sciences2020Q4
Library and Information Sciences2021Q4
Library and Information Sciences2022Q4
Library and Information Sciences2023Q4
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
19990.101
20000.100
20010.100
20020.123
20030.100
20040.102
20050.100
20060.100
20070.100
20080.100
20090.119
20100.160
20110.207
20120.157
20130.193
20140.156
20150.444
20160.203
20170.201
20180.161
20190.101
20200.121
20210.114
20220.113
20230.140
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
199933
200012
200181
200219
200320
200416
200510
200621
200715
200840
200920
201013
201122
201213
201315
201413
201514
201612
20179
201812
201910
202010
20216
202217
202320
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)19990.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20000.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20010.031
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20020.051
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20030.021
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20040.053
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20050.015
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20060.046
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20070.045
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20080.048
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20090.070
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20100.177
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20110.375
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20120.147
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20130.221
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20140.175
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20150.206
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20160.218
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20170.259
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20180.125
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.149
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.140
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20210.293
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20220.316
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20230.302
Cites / Doc. (3 years)19990.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20000.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20010.036
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20020.056
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20030.027
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20040.058
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20050.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20060.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20070.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20080.043
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20090.079
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20100.200
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20110.397
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20120.164
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20130.208
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20140.120
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20150.244
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20160.214
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20170.231
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20180.057
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.091
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.129
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.219
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20220.385
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20230.242
Cites / Doc. (2 years)19990.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20000.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20010.044
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20020.075
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20030.030
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20040.103
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20050.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20060.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20070.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20080.028
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20090.073
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20100.150
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20110.667
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20120.114
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20130.200
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20140.143
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20150.214
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20160.185
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20170.231
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20180.048
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.095
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.136
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.350
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20220.250
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20230.261
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites19990
Self Cites20000
Self Cites20010
Self Cites20023
Self Cites20033
Self Cites20044
Self Cites20050
Self Cites20060
Self Cites20070
Self Cites20080
Self Cites20094
Self Cites20101
Self Cites20115
Self Cites20121
Self Cites20135
Self Cites20140
Self Cites20154
Self Cites20161
Self Cites20172
Self Cites20180
Self Cites20190
Self Cites20200
Self Cites20210
Self Cites20220
Self Cites20230
Total Cites19990
Total Cites20000
Total Cites20012
Total Cites20027
Total Cites20033
Total Cites20047
Total Cites20050
Total Cites20060
Total Cites20070
Total Cites20082
Total Cites20096
Total Cites201015
Total Cites201129
Total Cites20129
Total Cites201310
Total Cites20146
Total Cites201510
Total Cites20169
Total Cites20179
Total Cites20182
Total Cites20193
Total Cites20204
Total Cites20217
Total Cites202210
Total Cites20238
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document19990.000
External Cites per document20000.000
External Cites per document20010.036
External Cites per document20020.032
External Cites per document20030.000
External Cites per document20040.025
External Cites per document20050.000
External Cites per document20060.000
External Cites per document20070.000
External Cites per document20080.043
External Cites per document20090.026
External Cites per document20100.187
External Cites per document20110.329
External Cites per document20120.145
External Cites per document20130.104
External Cites per document20140.120
External Cites per document20150.146
External Cites per document20160.190
External Cites per document20170.179
External Cites per document20180.057
External Cites per document20190.091
External Cites per document20200.129
External Cites per document20210.219
External Cites per document20220.385
External Cites per document20230.242
Cites per document19990.000
Cites per document20000.000
Cites per document20010.036
Cites per document20020.056
Cites per document20030.027
Cites per document20040.058
Cites per document20050.000
Cites per document20060.000
Cites per document20070.000
Cites per document20080.043
Cites per document20090.079
Cites per document20100.200
Cites per document20110.397
Cites per document20120.164
Cites per document20130.208
Cites per document20140.120
Cites per document20150.244
Cites per document20160.214
Cites per document20170.231
Cites per document20180.057
Cites per document20190.091
Cites per document20200.129
Cites per document20210.219
Cites per document20220.385
Cites per document20230.242
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
19990.00
20000.00
20011.23
20020.00
20030.00
20040.00
200510.00
20060.00
20070.00
20080.00
20090.00
20100.00
20110.00
20120.00
20130.00
20140.00
20150.00
20160.00
20170.00
20180.00
20190.00
20200.00
20210.00
20220.00
20230.00
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents19997
Non-citable documents20008
Non-citable documents20017
Non-citable documents20026
Non-citable documents20034
Non-citable documents20043
Non-citable documents20053
Non-citable documents20062
Non-citable documents20073
Non-citable documents20084
Non-citable documents20097
Non-citable documents20105
Non-citable documents20113
Non-citable documents20120
Non-citable documents20130
Non-citable documents20140
Non-citable documents20150
Non-citable documents20161
Non-citable documents20171
Non-citable documents20181
Non-citable documents20190
Non-citable documents20200
Non-citable documents20210
Non-citable documents20220
Non-citable documents20232
Citable documents199922
Citable documents200045
Citable documents200148
Citable documents2002120
Citable documents2003108
Citable documents2004117
Citable documents200552
Citable documents200644
Citable documents200744
Citable documents200842
Citable documents200969
Citable documents201070
Citable documents201170
Citable documents201255
Citable documents201348
Citable documents201450
Citable documents201541
Citable documents201641
Citable documents201738
Citable documents201834
Citable documents201933
Citable documents202031
Citable documents202132
Citable documents202226
Citable documents202331
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents199929
Uncited documents200053
Uncited documents200153
Uncited documents2002121
Uncited documents2003109
Uncited documents2004113
Uncited documents200555
Uncited documents200646
Uncited documents200747
Uncited documents200844
Uncited documents200970
Uncited documents201063
Uncited documents201152
Uncited documents201250
Uncited documents201341
Uncited documents201444
Uncited documents201533
Uncited documents201633
Uncited documents201731
Uncited documents201833
Uncited documents201931
Uncited documents202027
Uncited documents202127
Uncited documents202219
Uncited documents202327
Cited documents19990
Cited documents20000
Cited documents20012
Cited documents20025
Cited documents20033
Cited documents20047
Cited documents20050
Cited documents20060
Cited documents20070
Cited documents20082
Cited documents20096
Cited documents201012
Cited documents201121
Cited documents20125
Cited documents20137
Cited documents20146
Cited documents20158
Cited documents20169
Cited documents20178
Cited documents20182
Cited documents20192
Cited documents20204
Cited documents20215
Cited documents20227
Cited documents20236
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