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Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
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ISSN 1388-1906Verify ISSN ↗1571-8158Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 755 / 1162 | 35th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1079 / 1530 | 29th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 545 / 745 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law is Q3 in Law (rank 755 of 1162), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1079 of 1530) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 545 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law 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, 35th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.121, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law is published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1388-1906 and its online ISSN is 1571-8158.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #844 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 16. 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 58 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (10.3%), Vietnam (10.3%) and Indonesia (9.5%).
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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