Journal of Library Science in China (JLSC) is one of the national journals in library and information science. It is jointly sponsored by the China Society for Library Science and the National Library of China, under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture, People's Republic of China.
Since its founding in 1957, JLSC has been making its contributions to the studies in library and information science and the development of librarianship. It has won the prize of "Excellent Journals" in the four evaluations in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
With professionals, teachers and students in library and information science as its major audience and with academic research and exchange in library and information science as its mission, JLSC is a specialized academic journal publishing results of academic research and exchanging academic opinions, in order to promote the development of Chinese librarianship.
Because of its strict selection, papers published in JLSC reflect the highest level of the studies in library science in China, and include many papers on the results of national or ministerial research projects. According to statistics since the middle of the 1990s, citation and reprint rates of papers in JLSC rank first among journals in library science in China. Therefore, it is included in the core national journals, and is listed in many international indexes and directories, such as Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, Library Literature and New Serial Titles.
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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.
Category
Year
Quartile
Library and Information Sciences
2022
Q3
Library and Information Sciences
2023
Q2
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.
Year
SJR
2022
0.199
2023
0.255
Total Documents
Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.
Year
Documents
2019
54
2020
50
2021
41
2022
58
2023
50
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 document
Year
Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2019
0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2020
0.574
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2021
0.625
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2022
0.710
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2023
0.887
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2019
0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2020
0.574
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2021
0.625
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2022
0.710
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2023
0.886
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2019
0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2020
0.574
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2021
0.625
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2022
0.703
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2023
0.909
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.
Cites
Year
Value
Self Cites
2019
0
Self Cites
2020
22
Self Cites
2021
20
Self Cites
2022
34
Self Cites
2023
58
Total Cites
2019
0
Total Cites
2020
31
Total Cites
2021
65
Total Cites
2022
103
Total Cites
2023
132
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.
Cites
Year
Value
External Cites per document
2019
0
External Cites per document
2020
0.167
External Cites per document
2021
0.433
External Cites per document
2022
0.476
External Cites per document
2023
0.497
Cites per document
2019
0.000
Cites per document
2020
0.574
Cites per document
2021
0.625
Cites per document
2022
0.710
Cites per document
2023
0.886
% 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.
Year
International Collaboration
2019
0.00
2020
0.00
2021
0.00
2022
0.00
2023
0.00
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.
Documents
Year
Value
Non-citable documents
2019
0
Non-citable documents
2020
0
Non-citable documents
2021
0
Non-citable documents
2022
0
Non-citable documents
2023
0
Citable documents
2019
0
Citable documents
2020
54
Citable documents
2021
104
Citable documents
2022
145
Citable documents
2023
149
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.
Documents
Year
Value
Uncited documents
2019
0
Uncited documents
2020
34
Uncited documents
2021
65
Uncited documents
2022
83
Uncited documents
2023
79
Cited documents
2019
0
Cited documents
2020
20
Cited documents
2021
39
Cited documents
2022
62
Cited documents
2023
70
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