Public Library Quarterly (PLQ) is addressed to leaders-directors, managers, staff, trustees, and friends-who believe that change is imperative if public libraries are to fulfill their service missions in the twenty-first century.
In PLQ, directors and operating officers tell how they accomplished change. The journal examines:
Best practices and models to improve service
Management case studies-with results and failures
Library mythologies that retard individual and institutional development
Studies of how to plan results and accomplish desired outcomes
Marketing and fund-raising tools that work
Budget and financial analysis tools and tips
How new technology works in practice
Innovative, high-quality programs for children
Peer Review Policy: All articles in Public Library Quarterly have undergone editorial screening and peer review.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Journal metrics
Usage
104K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.4 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
1.3 (2023) 5 year IF
3.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.189 (2023) SNIP
0.703 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
31 days avg. from submission to first
decision
61 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
8 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
41% 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.
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.
Editor-in-Chief Joe Matthews – Consultant- Carlsbad, CA
Editorial Board Noorhidawati Abdullah - University of Malaya, Malaya Denice Adkins - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Nancy Bolt - Consultant, Arvada, Colorado, USA Lori Bowen Ayre - The Galecia Group, Petaluma, USA Wade Bishop -University of Tennessee, USA Anthony Bernier - San Jose State University, USA Jenny Bossaller - University of Missouri, USA Judy Broady-Preston - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University, UK Susan Burke -University of Oklahoma, USA Nadia Caidi - - University of Toronto, Canada Philip Calvert - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Mary Cavanagh -Université d'Ottawa, Canada Cindy Chadwick -Alameda County Library System, California, USA Christine D'Arpa -Wayne State University, Michigan, USA Denise M. Davis - Allen County Public Library, Indiana, USA Kate Davis - University of Southern Queensland, Australia Ellen Forsyth -Consultant, State Library New South Wales, Australia Anne Goulding - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand LaVerne Gray - Syracuse University, USA Susan Hildreth - University of Washington iSchool, USA Linda Hofschire - Colorado State Library, USA Glen E. Holt - PLQ, Editor Emeritus, USA Rebecca Jones - Dysart & Jones, Toronto, Canada Mary Wilkins Jordan - Simmons College, USA Heidi Julien -University of Buffalo, USA Dick Kawooya - University of South Carolina, USA Soo Hyeon "Sue" Kim - Indiana University-Indianapolis, USA Kyungwon Koh -University of Illinois, USA Don Latham -Florida State University, USA Joyce Latham -University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA James LaRue -Library Consultant, USA Adrianna McCleer -Appleton Public Library, Wisconsin, USA David McMenemy - University of Strathclyde, UK Cynthia Mediavilla -University of California, Los Angeles, USA Bharat Mehra - University of Alabama, USA Robert E. Molyneux - Consultant, Duluth, GA, USA Lorri Mon -Florida State University, USA Marion Morgan - Bindon -Oxfordshire Library Services, UK Linda Most -Valdosta State University, Georgia Annie Norman -Delaware State Librarian, USA Tami Oliphant -University of Alberta, USA Brian Real - School of Information Science, University of Kentucky, USA Jan Richards -Central West Libraries, Orange, Australia Ellen Rubenstein -University of Oklahoma, USA Vandana Singh - University of Tennessee, USA Daniella Smith - University of North Texas, USA Pam Smith - Anythink Libraries, USA Suzanne Stauffer -Louisiana State University, USA Michael Stephens - San Jose State University, USA Siobhan Stevenson - University of Toronto, USA Brian W. Sturm -University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Carl D. Thompson - Counting Opinions (SQUIRE) Ltd., Toronto, Canada Hui-Yun Sung - National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Maurice Wheeler -University of North Texas, USA Larry White -Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Public Library Quarterly is abstracted/indexed in: De Gruyter Saur; IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur; EBSCOhost; Academic Search Complete; H.W. Wilson; FRANCIS; Library, INformation Science & Technolgoy Abstracts (LISTA); MasterFILE Complete; MLA International Bibliography; Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies; TOC Premier; Elsevier BV; Scopus; Gale; OCLC; ArticleFirst; Library Literature; ProQuest; Aerospace Database; Corrosion Abstracts; Engineering Material Abstracts; LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts; Materials Business File; METADEX; and Technology Research Database.
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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