Impact of emerging Library and Information Science journals on the Web of Science (2017)

The present work performs an impact analysis of the journals of the category Information Science & Library Science from the Emerging Source Citation Index (Web of Science) database. For this purpose, the Impact Factor for 2017 is calculated for these journals, ordering the journals into quartiles according to their impact and comparing the data with the category of the same name from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for the same period. The results show a group with an average number of citations lower than the referent, with few exceptions, where the journals with the greatest repercussions are usually Anglo-Saxon. Comparatively, most journals score lower than the third quartile of SSCI. In addition, three journals published by Emerald have been identified and are no longer indexed. This type of work provides transparency to the evaluation processes of Web of Science, contributing with very valuable information for editors and authors of the area.