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African Human Rights Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7), DOAJ. Published by Pretoria University Law Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1609-073XVerify ISSN ↗1996-2096Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 758 / 1162 | 34th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 514 / 744 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
African Human Rights Law Journal is Q3 in Law (rank 758 of 1162) and Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 514 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
African Human Rights Law Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3, 34th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.221, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
African Human Rights Law Journal is published by Pretoria University Law Press. Its print ISSN is 1609-073X and its online ISSN is 1996-2096.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
African Human Rights Law Journal has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #553 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
African Human Rights Law Journal published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 74. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 85 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (58.8%), Nigeria (8.2%) and Kenya (5.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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