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Behavioral Sciences and the Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 0735-3936Verify ISSN ↗1099-0798Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 267 / 1162 | 77th | Q1 |
| Clinical Psychology | 157 / 314 | 50th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 330 / 580 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.7.
Behavioral Sciences and the Law is Q1 in Law (rank 267 of 1162), Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 157 of 314) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 330 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Behavioral Sciences and the Law is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.402, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 91.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Behavioral Sciences and the Law is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0735-3936 and its online ISSN is 1099-0798.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Behavioral Sciences and the Law has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Behavioral Sciences and the Law published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 73. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (47.6%), United Kingdom (10.6%) and Canada (5.9%).
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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