Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian

Country

United States

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

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Routledge

H-Index

18

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

01639269, 15444546

Coverage

1979-2002, 2004-2017, 2019-2020

Information

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Scope

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian focuses on the production, collection, organization, dissemination, retrieval, and use of information in the social and behavioral sciences. This peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on all aspects of behavioral and social sciences information, with emphasis on librarians, libraries, and the users of social science information in libraries and information centers. The Journal publishes articles devoted to descriptive and critical analyses of information resources within particular fields; publishing trends; reference and bibliographic instruction; indexing and abstracting; thesaurus building and database construction; bibliographic and numeric databases and more. The Journal welcomes original research from a variety of disciplines, including the core fields of anthropology, sociology, economics, psychology, communication studies, education, political science, and those parts of history relying on social scientific methods and approaches—language and area studies and the study of special populations, such as Latin American studies, ethnic studies, and women's studies. 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
Library and Information Sciences1999Q4
Library and Information Sciences2000Q4
Library and Information Sciences2001Q3
Library and Information Sciences2002Q3
Library and Information Sciences2003Q4
Library and Information Sciences2004Q3
Library and Information Sciences2005Q3
Library and Information Sciences2006Q2
Library and Information Sciences2007Q3
Library and Information Sciences2008Q2
Library and Information Sciences2009Q3
Library and Information Sciences2010Q3
Library and Information Sciences2011Q3
Library and Information Sciences2012Q2
Library and Information Sciences2013Q2
Library and Information Sciences2014Q2
Library and Information Sciences2015Q2
Library and Information Sciences2016Q1
Library and Information Sciences2017Q2
Library and Information Sciences2018Q1
Library and Information Sciences2019Q2
Library and Information Sciences2020Q3
Library and Information Sciences2021Q4
Library and Information Sciences2022Q2
Library and Information Sciences2023Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)1999Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2000Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2001Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2002Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2003Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2004Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2005Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2006Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2007Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2008Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2009Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2010Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2011Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2012Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2013Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2014Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2015Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2016Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2017Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2018Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2019Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2020Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2021Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2022Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2023Q4
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
19990.104
20000.118
20010.179
20020.148
20030.114
20040.169
20050.140
20060.247
20070.185
20080.263
20090.177
20100.302
20110.258
20120.518
20130.540
20140.496
20150.590
20160.593
20170.392
20180.556
20190.350
20200.180
20210.110
20220.398
20230.111
Total Documents

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

YearDocuments
199921
200014
200115
200227
20030
200423
200514
200614
200713
200835
200916
201025
201124
201217
201324
201422
201521
201622
201712
20180
20190
20203
20210
20220
20230
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)19990.024
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20000.048
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20010.123
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20020.068
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20030.052
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20040.161
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20050.138
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20060.141
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20070.196
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20080.359
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20090.184
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20100.244
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20110.258
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20120.410
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20130.622
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20140.578
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20150.529
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20160.702
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20170.899
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20180.844
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.655
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.471
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20210.400
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20221.333
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20230.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)19990.024
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20000.059
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20010.136
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20020.080
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20030.054
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20040.119
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20050.180
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20060.216
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20070.196
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20080.366
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20090.145
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20100.266
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20110.276
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20120.477
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20130.561
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20140.585
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20150.635
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20160.836
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20170.908
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20180.636
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.471
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.417
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.333
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20221.333
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20230.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)19990.033
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20000.033
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20010.143
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20020.103
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20030.071
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20040.111
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20050.217
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20060.216
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20070.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20080.370
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20090.125
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20100.275
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20110.366
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20120.490
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20130.463
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20140.561
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20150.696
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20160.721
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20170.512
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20180.353
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.167
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.333
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20221.333
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20230.000
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 Cites20022
Self Cites20030
Self Cites20040
Self Cites20051
Self Cites20061
Self Cites20070
Self Cites200810
Self Cites20093
Self Cites20102
Self Cites20113
Self Cites20122
Self Cites20133
Self Cites20148
Self Cites20152
Self Cites20160
Self Cites20174
Self Cites20180
Self Cites20190
Self Cites20200
Self Cites20210
Self Cites20220
Self Cites20230
Total Cites19991
Total Cites20003
Total Cites20016
Total Cites20024
Total Cites20033
Total Cites20045
Total Cites20059
Total Cites20068
Total Cites200710
Total Cites200815
Total Cites20099
Total Cites201017
Total Cites201121
Total Cites201231
Total Cites201337
Total Cites201438
Total Cites201540
Total Cites201656
Total Cites201759
Total Cites201835
Total Cites201916
Total Cites20205
Total Cites20211
Total Cites20224
Total Cites20230
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 document19990.024
External Cites per document20000.059
External Cites per document20010.136
External Cites per document20020.040
External Cites per document20030.054
External Cites per document20040.119
External Cites per document20050.160
External Cites per document20060.189
External Cites per document20070.196
External Cites per document20080.122
External Cites per document20090.097
External Cites per document20100.234
External Cites per document20110.237
External Cites per document20120.446
External Cites per document20130.515
External Cites per document20140.462
External Cites per document20150.603
External Cites per document20160.836
External Cites per document20170.846
External Cites per document20180.636
External Cites per document20190.471
External Cites per document20200.417
External Cites per document20210.333
External Cites per document20221.333
External Cites per document20230.000
Cites per document19990.024
Cites per document20000.059
Cites per document20010.136
Cites per document20020.080
Cites per document20030.054
Cites per document20040.119
Cites per document20050.180
Cites per document20060.216
Cites per document20070.196
Cites per document20080.366
Cites per document20090.145
Cites per document20100.266
Cites per document20110.276
Cites per document20120.477
Cites per document20130.561
Cites per document20140.585
Cites per document20150.635
Cites per document20160.836
Cites per document20170.908
Cites per document20180.636
Cites per document20190.471
Cites per document20200.417
Cites per document20210.333
Cites per document20221.333
Cites per document20230.000
% 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
19994.76
20000.00
20010.00
20020.00
20030
20044.35
20050.00
20060.00
20070.00
20082.86
20090.00
20100.00
20110.00
20120.00
20130.00
20144.55
20150.00
20160.00
20170.00
20180
20190
20200.00
20210
20220
20230
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 documents19990
Non-citable documents20000
Non-citable documents20010
Non-citable documents20020
Non-citable documents20030
Non-citable documents20040
Non-citable documents20050
Non-citable documents20060
Non-citable documents20070
Non-citable documents20080
Non-citable documents20090
Non-citable documents20104
Non-citable documents20119
Non-citable documents201215
Non-citable documents201315
Non-citable documents201414
Non-citable documents201518
Non-citable documents201622
Non-citable documents201730
Non-citable documents201822
Non-citable documents201914
Non-citable documents20202
Non-citable documents20210
Non-citable documents20220
Non-citable documents20230
Citable documents199941
Citable documents200051
Citable documents200144
Citable documents200250
Citable documents200356
Citable documents200442
Citable documents200550
Citable documents200637
Citable documents200751
Citable documents200841
Citable documents200962
Citable documents201060
Citable documents201167
Citable documents201250
Citable documents201351
Citable documents201451
Citable documents201545
Citable documents201645
Citable documents201735
Citable documents201833
Citable documents201920
Citable documents202010
Citable documents20213
Citable documents20223
Citable documents20233
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 documents199940
Uncited documents200048
Uncited documents200138
Uncited documents200246
Uncited documents200353
Uncited documents200438
Uncited documents200541
Uncited documents200632
Uncited documents200743
Uncited documents200826
Uncited documents200955
Uncited documents201052
Uncited documents201161
Uncited documents201244
Uncited documents201342
Uncited documents201441
Uncited documents201542
Uncited documents201640
Uncited documents201740
Uncited documents201835
Uncited documents201924
Uncited documents20209
Uncited documents20212
Uncited documents20221
Uncited documents20233
Cited documents19991
Cited documents20003
Cited documents20016
Cited documents20024
Cited documents20033
Cited documents20044
Cited documents20059
Cited documents20065
Cited documents20078
Cited documents200815
Cited documents20097
Cited documents201012
Cited documents201115
Cited documents201221
Cited documents201324
Cited documents201424
Cited documents201521
Cited documents201627
Cited documents201725
Cited documents201820
Cited documents201910
Cited documents20203
Cited documents20211
Cited documents20222
Cited documents20230
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
199958.62
200056.25
200140.00
200265.52
20030.00
200458.62
200540.00
200653.33
200754.55
200858.06
200957.14
201062.50
201163.16
201258.33
201354.55
201452.94
201561.11
201660.87
201793.33
20180.00
20190.00
2020100.00
20210.00
20220.00
20230.00
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton19990
Overton20000
Overton20010
Overton20020
Overton20030
Overton20040
Overton20050
Overton20060
Overton20070
Overton20081
Overton20090
Overton20100
Overton20110
Overton20120
Overton20130
Overton20142
Overton20150
Overton20161
Overton20170
Overton20180
Overton20190
Overton20200
Overton20210
Overton20220
Overton20230
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG20180
SDG20190
SDG20201
SDG20210
SDG20220
SDG20230
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