About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal of Library Metadata, a peer-reviewed journal, marks the growing importance of metadata in libraries and other institutions. As libraries collect, produce, distribute and publish more information than ever before, the metadata that describes these resources becomes more critical for digital resource management and discovery. The journal is a forum for the latest research, innovations, news, and expert views about all aspects of metadata applications and about the role of metadata in information retrieval. The focus is on practical, applicable information that libraries and other institutions can effectively use in their own information discovery environments.
The journal features original scholarly research, new developments in the field, and reviews of relevant material. Subjects covered include, but are not limited, to application profiles; best practices; controlled vocabularies; cross walking of metadata and interoperability; digital libraries and metadata; federated repositories and searching; folksonomies, individual metadata schemes; institutional repository metadata; metadata content standards; resource description framework; SKOS; topic maps; and more.
Readership: The Journal of Library Metadata is essential reading for information professionals dealing with metadata, cataloging, institutional repositories and/or digital repositories and libraries, information retrieval system design as well as for researchers in library and information science and related fields.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in Journal of Library Metadata have undergone rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two anonymous referees.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 15K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.535 (2023) SNIP
- 0.201 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 53 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 115 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 53% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Jung-ran Park, PhD
The iSchool at Drexel
College of Computing and Informatics
Drexel University, USA
Editorial Board
Murtha Baca - Getty Research Institute, USA
Mary K. Bolin- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
D. Grant Campbell - University of Western Ontario, Canada
Michael A. Chopey - University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Michael Day - The British Library, UK
Guy Frost- Valdosta State University, USA
Rachel Jaffe - University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Jane Greenberg - Drexel University, USA
Rebecca Guenther - Library of Congress, USA
Corey Harper - New York University, USA
Myung-Ja Han - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Lynne Howarth - University of Toronto, USA
Arwen Hutt - University of California, USA
Deepjyoti Kalita - Cotton University, India
Jennifer Lang - Princeton University, USA
Betty Meagher - University of Denver, USA
Shawne D. Miksa - University of North Texas, USA
William Moen - University of North Texas, USA
Hope A. Olson - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Clay Redding - Library of Congress, USA
Sandy Roe - Illinois State University, USA
Jacquie Samples - Duke University Libraries, USA
Joseph Tennis - University of Washington, USA
Jean Riddle Weihs - Technical Services Group, USA
Robin Wendler - Harvard University, USA
Kathy Wisser - Simmons College, USA
Jen Wolfe - University of Iowa Libraries, USA
Deane Zeeman - Library and Archives, Canada
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Library Metadata is abstracted/indexed in: De Gruyter Saur; IBZ -Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes-und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Academic Search Complete; FRANCIS; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA); MasterFILE Complete; Elsevier BV; Scopus; Gale; MLA International Bibliography; National Library of Medicine; PubMed; OCLC; ArticleFirst; Ovid; ProQuest; Aerospace Database; LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts; METADEX; Technology Research Database; and VINITI RAN.
All Library & Information Science journals are subject to the Zero Embargo Green OA Policy, which states that authors retain copyright of their article & are entitled to Green Open Access, allowing authors to post their Accepted Manuscripts to repositories, social media, personal webpages, etc. immediately upon publication.
More information on the Zero Embargo Green OA Policy can be found here.
Open access
Journal of Library Metadata is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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4 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Journal of Library Metadata (2008 - current)
Formerly known as
- Journal of Internet Cataloging (1997 - 2007)
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