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Collection and Curation

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 2018

ISSN2514-9326eISSN2514-9326

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.416

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.548

Total Worksi

148

Total Citationsi

734

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.12

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Information Science & Library Science; Museology; Library and Information Sciences.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2018

Annual Volume~ 16 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications148

Publisher OrgEmerald Publishing Limited

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2514-9326 / 2514-9326

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

108

2019

165

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

MuseologyQ1

Library and Information SciencesQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Information Science & Library Science

Scopus Categories

Library and Information SciencesMuseology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Library Collection Development and Digital ResourcesDigital and Traditional Archives ManagementLibrary Science and Information LiteracyLibrary Science and Administrationscientometrics and bibliometrics researchTechnology Adoption and User BehaviourMuseums and Cultural HeritageResearch Data Management PracticesData Quality and ManagementWeb and Library Services

Frequently asked questions about Collection and Curation

Is Collection and Curation a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Collection and Curation: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Collection and Curation?

Collection and Curation is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 2.12.

Is Collection and Curation indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Collection and Curation is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Collection and Curation?