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Asian Journal of Law and Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 2154-4611Verify ISSN ↗2194-6086Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 654 / 1162 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 211 / 283 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Asian Journal of Law and Economics is Q3 in Law (rank 654 of 1162) and Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 211 of 283), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Journal of Law and Economics 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.181, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Asian Journal of Law and Economics is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2154-4611 and its online ISSN is 2194-6086.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Journal of Law and Economics has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #406 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Asian Journal of Law and Economics published 25 papers in 2025. 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 95 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (16.8%), Japan (16.3%) and United States (12.6%).
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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