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Arctic Review on Law and Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), DOAJ. Published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
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ISSN 2387-4562Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cappelen Damm Akademisk
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 77 / 1162 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 197 / 1530 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Arctic Review on Law and Politics is Q1 in Law (rank 77 of 1162) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 197 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Arctic Review on Law and Politics 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 5.3, quartile Q1, 93rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.467, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,189 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Arctic Review on Law and Politics is published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk. Its ISSN is 2387-4562.
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.
Arctic Review on Law and Politics has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 1.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #159 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Arctic Review on Law and Politics published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 25. 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 84 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Norway (50.6%), Sweden (16.5%) and Canada (9.1%). 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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