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California Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SSCI. Published by University of California, Berkeley.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0008-1221Verify ISSN ↗1942-6542Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 192 / 1162 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994, 1990–1992, 1986–1988, 1982–1983, 1973–1979), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.3.
California Law Review is Q1 in Law (rank 192 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
California Law Review 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.336, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
California Law Review is published by University of California, Berkeley. Its print ISSN is 0008-1221 and its online ISSN is 1942-6542.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
California Law Review has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #307 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
California Law Review published 1 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 17. 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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