Legal Reference Services Quarterly

Legal Reference Services Quarterly 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 Legal Education and Practice Innovations, together about 44.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

This journal is a part of the Subscribe to Open pilot. As such all articles in the current volume will be published open access at no costs to authors. If enough readers renew their reading support for this journal, it will remain open access next year. Legal Reference Services Quarterly is peer-reviewed journal featuring scholarly research and practical insights into law library management and legal information studies globally. As an essential forum for daily problems and issues, through our Practical Insights column, Legal Reference Services Quarterly will assist you in your day-to-day work as it has been helping law librarians and members of the legal professional for more than four decades. As part of our mission, Legal Reference Services Quarterly is dedicated to fostering serious, in-depth scholarly exploration of issues pertaining to legal information and research services. In addition, Legal Reference Services Quarterly just launched a new column, Librarians as Model Thinkers , to promote active thinking and occasionally, perhaps, unconventional thinking to help assess our past, examine our present and forecast our future collectively, utilizing widely accepted thinking concepts and intellectual models developed in different disciplines. Here is a sample list of topics for which we continue to seek quality submissions year-round. Research data management and law libraries. Knowledge management and knowledge transfer in law libraries. Technology, data, and legal research. Global open access to information, data, tools, and standards. Law library management in a hybrif work and learning environment, including but not limited to space, design, strategic planning, recruitment and retetnion, impact, and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. Innovative service development in teaching, reference, research, outreach and engagement, scholarly communication, user interface (re)design, metadata, discovery systems, and access services. Technology and legal information services in areas such as data visualization, artificial intelligence; big data; empirical research; data analysis and management; digitalization, database evaulation and mangement; implementation of technologies; and open-source tool development. Value maximization of archives and special collections in the digital environment. Libraries and vendor relations. Studies' in information-seeking bahavior, pedagogies, active learning, legal informatics, bibliometrics studies, and research method

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Law

Editor-in-chief Alex ZhangPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub

Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

PubMedINSPECPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, OCLC, De Gruyter Saur, EBSOhost, Academic Search Complete, H.W. Wilson, Legal Source, MasterFILE Complete, TOC Premier, Elsevier BV, Gale, Academic OneFile, InfoTrac Custom, LegalTrac, National Library of Medicine, ArticleFirst, Library Literature, Ovid, Aerospace Database, Civil Engineering Abstracts, Engineering Materials Abstracts, Material Business File, METADEX, PAIS International, Technology Research Database

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.7LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.7Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.21LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.21Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.02LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.02Publisher website · 2026-11-01

h-index

15OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

27OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.37OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Volume

Downloads per year (publisher)

22,000Publisher website · 2026-11-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Submission to first decision

55 daysPublisher website · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Single-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0270-319X

Electronic ISSN

1540-949X

Latest issue on the website

Volume 45, Issue 2 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website