The Journal of Hospital Librarianship focuses on issues that are of vital interest and concern to hospital librarians. The journal provides a forum for research strategies and reporting research results and quality improvement projects in hospital library settings, discussions of technological challenges and solutions, and articles on health care administration issues which have implications for hospital librarians such as managed care health care economics, hospital mergers, as well as patient safety and consumer health information.
Editorial Board members mentor new authors to produce a publishable manuscript.
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Journal metrics
Usage
29K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.307 (2023) SNIP
0.240 (2023) SJR
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.
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.
Dena Fracolli Hanson - Edwin G. Schwarz Health Sciences Library, Cook Children's Health Care System, Fort Worth, TX
Dixie A. Jones - Bossier City, LA
Allison Matthews - Fales Health Sciences Library, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, NC
Melinda Orebaugh - Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI
Barbara Platts - Munson Medical Center, Traverse City, MI
Katherine Stemmer-Frumento - East Haven, CT
Jill M. Daby - Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, Plattsburgh, NY
Michelle Bass - Pennsylvania Hospital Medical Library, Philadelphia, PA
Jennifer Coale - VA Boston, MA
Column Editors
Consumer
Ashley Brock - Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX
Bridget Jivanelli - Kim Barrett Memorial Library, HSS Education Institute, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Dana L. Ladd – Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Outreach
Helen-Ann Brown Epstein - Virtua Health Sciences Library, Virtua Health, Mt. Laurel, NJ
Loren Hackett - Cleveland Clinic Foundation Libraries, Cleveland, OH
Caroline Marshall - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA
Jessica Patterson - West Haven Ct. VA Medical Center, West Haven, CT
Specialty of the House
Jerry Carlson - UC Health, Fort Collins, CO
Mary Pat Harnegie - Cleveland Clinic Foundation Libraries, Cleveland, OH
Tanisha N. Mills - Fraser Resource Center and Health Sciences Library, Northeast Georgia Health System, Gainesville, GA
Technology
Mary Katherine Haver - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
Gail Kouame - Charles M. Baugh Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
Lori Anne Oja - Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto, University of Toronto, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Brandy Klug - John S. Marietta Memorial Medical Library, JPS Health Network , Fort Worth, TX
Patchwork
Clare Edwards - HEE Midlands & East of England & Midlands, Birmingham, England, UK
Gemma Siemensma - Grampians Health, Ballarat Victoria, Australia
Lisa Huang - North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Gainesville, FL
Christine Willis - Inman Medical Library, Egleston Hospital, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Reviews
Claire B. Joseph - Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital, Oceanside, NY
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Hospital Librarianshipis abstracted/indexed in: De Gruyter Saur; IBZ; EBSCOhost; Academic Search Complete; CINAHL; Library, INformation Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA); MasterFILE Complete; TOC Premier; Elsevier BV; Scopus; National Library of Medicine; PubMed; OCLC; ArticleFirst; ProQuest; and LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts.
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 Hospital Librarianship 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)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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