Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian

Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian is published by Taylor & Francis. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Library Science and Information, Library Science and Information Literacy and Library Collection Development and Digital Resources, together about 56.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian is no longer accepting submissions. 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. Readership: Professionals with a common interest in the use of information in the behavioral and social sciences, including librarians and information specialists, collection development administrators, scholars, teachers, policymakers, publishers, and database producers Peer Review Policy: All research articles in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 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. Sorry, there are currently no metrics available for this journal.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

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International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

PubMedINSPECCINAHLERICPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, OCLC, De Gruyter Saur, EBSCOhost Online Research Databases, Academic Search Complete, ERIC Education Resources Information Center, H.W. Wilson Indexes, SocINDEX, Elsevier BV, E-psyche, Gale, National Library of Medicine, ArticleFirst, Ovid, Personal Alert, British Humanities Index (Online), LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts, PAIS International, Taylor & Francis, VINITI RAN

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.6LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.18LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.07LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

24OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

106OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0163-9269

Electronic ISSN

1544-4546

Latest issue on the website

Volume 36, Issue 4 (2017)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex