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Arab Law Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0268-0556Verify ISSN ↗1573-0255Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 628 / 1162 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 1987–2004, 1985, 1980), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Arab Law Quarterly is Q3 in Law (rank 628 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Arab Law Quarterly is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.209, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 21.
Arab Law Quarterly is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0268-0556 and its online ISSN is 1573-0255.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Arab Law Quarterly has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #522 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Arab Law Quarterly published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 53. 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 83 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (15.2%), Saudi Arabia (14.5%) and United Kingdom (7.6%).
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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