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Business Lawyer is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), ABDC A. Published by American Bar Association.
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ISSN 0007-6899Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Bar Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 509 / 1162 | 56th | Q2 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 182 / 254 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 1995–2012, 1979), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Business Lawyer is Q2 in Law (rank 509 of 1162) and Q3 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 182 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
Business Lawyer 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 1.4, quartile Q2, 56th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.410, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Business Lawyer is published by American Bar Association. Its ISSN is 0007-6899.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Business Lawyer has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Business Lawyer published 1 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2007 with 4. 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.
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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