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The Journal of Academic Librarianship has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.91 and an h-index of 112 in OpenAlex, #21 of 27 tracked higher education and research journals by citedness.
In 2025 it published 138 papers, and its papers received 4,409 citations.
The Journal of Academic Librarianship published 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #137 of 480 journals.
Leading institutions: Illinois State University (1), University of Idaho (1) and University of Pittsburgh (1).
Countries: United States (7), Hong Kong (1) and Taiwan (1).
38% of the papers The Journal of Academic Librarianship published in 2023–2025 are open access in OpenAlex (hybrid 26%, bronze 1% and green 11%), #24 of 27 tracked higher education and research journals by open-access share.
From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, The Journal of Academic Librarianship published 423 papers (12 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
Its most frequent keywords over that period were “academic libraries” (210), “information literacy” (58) and “academic librarians” (43).
Its most-cited paper of the period is “Leadership styles and AI acceptance in academic libraries in higher education” (2024-01-25), with 91 citations.
Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)
Year
Papers
Citations received
2026 (so far)
140
3,234
2025
138
4,409
2024
127
5,255
2023
132
5,512
2022
128
5,037
2021
144
4,826
2020
134
4,852
2019
124
4,695
2018
127
3,960
2017
130
4,010
2016
137
4,605
2-year mean citedness is the recent-publication citation average reported by OpenAlex. It is a separate metric from Clarivate's Journal Impact Factor and Scopus CiteScore, with different coverage and rules; the h-index and i10-index cover the indexed publication history. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly; the site's build date is not the metric's reference year.
Official Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) values and current availability are not verified here. Consult the publisher and metric provider for the applicable reference year. Journal website →
Open-access status as OpenAlex reports it for each paper (diamond: published in an open-access journal that charges authors no fee; gold: published in an open-access journal; hybrid: open under a licence in a subscription journal; bronze: free to read on the publisher's site without an open licence; green: only a free copy in a repository; closed: no free copy found). Papers count by publication year; the share is of the papers whose status is known.
Scholar4AI. (2026). The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-academic-librarianship
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