Journal profile · INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion
ISSN 1132-1873 · eISSN 1988-2858 · Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); fully open access; 25 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion is published by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books, Historical Art and Architecture Studies and Photographic and Visual Arts, together about 33.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Communication. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Revista General de Información y Documentación (ISSN 1132-1873, ISSN-e 1988-2858), founded in 1991, is published by the Faculty of Documentation Sciences. It is published every six months and includes research related to Documentation Science in its broadest sense (Archives, Libraries, Documentation Management, Bibliographic Heritage, Communication Media, etc.). The journal includes three sections: Articles, Notes and Reviews.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Libraries, Manuscripts, and BooksArts and Humanities16.5%
- Historical Art and Architecture StudiesArts and Humanities9.9%
- Photographic and Visual ArtsArts and Humanities6.9%
- Media, Journalism, and Communication HistoryArts and Humanities6%
- E-Learning and Knowledge ManagementComputer Science5.4%
- Advertising and Communication StudiesSocial Sciences4.3%
- Early Modern Spanish LiteratureArts and Humanities3.5%
- Administrative Law and GovernanceSocial Sciences3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Information Science & Library Science | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Information Science & Library Science | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 25Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.14LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.53LetPub ·
- h-index
- 13OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 21OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.23OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 33.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 96.05%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 448 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 2025 | 25 | 25 | 3 |
| 2024 | 31 | 31 | 13 |
| 2023 | 32 | 32 | 36 |
| 2022 | 28 | 28 | 29 |
| 2021 | 42 | 42 | 105 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- ISSN
- 1132-1873
- Electronic ISSN
- 1988-2858
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 36, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion
What CAS zone is Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Information Science & Library Science. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
Which databases index Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion open access, and what is the APC?
Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion is a fully open-access journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .