Health Information and Libraries Journal

Aims & Scope

HILJ welcomes case studies, evaluation and research report of successful practice or lessons learnt.

Authors should seek to clarify the relevance of your manuscript to health knowledge services, and health information and library services workers.

We welcome manuscripts in the following areas: Identifying health information needs, understanding health information behaviour; Information retrieval in health and biomedicine; Information literacy for professionals and the public; Management of health information programmes and services; Mobilising health knowledge & evidence; Information systems design and architecture, health informatics & models of service delivery; Education and training of health library and information workers; Social care information services; Knowledge translation services; Research support services, research data management, open data, big data; Health and biomedical nomenclatures, vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies and taxonomies; Bibliometric/altmetric studies of a specific health topic, or aspect of impact.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.4
2024	2.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6891

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	424

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.790

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	53

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Health Professions, Medicine and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies

  Citation: 6923

  Authors: Maria J., Andrew

• The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education¹

  Citation: 594

  Authors: Maged N., Steve

• Consumer health information seeking in social media: a literature review

  Citation: 458

  Authors: Yuehua, Jin

• Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3‐D virtual worlds in medical and health education

  Citation: 433

  Authors: Maged N. Kamel, Lee, Steve

• Meeting the review family: exploring review types and associated information retrieval requirements

  Citation: 349

  Authors: Anthea, Mark, Louise, Andrew

• Application of bibliometrics in medicine: a historical bibliometrics analysis

  Citation: 333

  Authors: Peter, Helena, Jernej

• An exploration of how fake news is taking over social media and putting public health at risk

  Citation: 319

  Authors: Salman Bin, Rubina, Aqsa

• Effective e‐learning for health professionals and students—barriers and their solutions. A systematic review of the literature—findings from the HeXL project

  Citation: 271

  Authors: Sue, Elizabeth, Amanda, Graham

• The information‐seeking behaviour of doctors: a review of the evidence

  Citation: 243

  Authors: Karen

• The Covid‐19 ‘infodemic’: a new front for information professionals

  Citation: 239

  Authors: Salman Bin, Rubina

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