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Climate Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1878-6553Verify ISSN ↗1878-6561Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 286 / 1162 | 75th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 248 / 432 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2010–2012), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.6.
Climate Law is Q1 in Law (rank 286 of 1162) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 248 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Climate Law 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.525, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
Climate Law is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1878-6553 and its online ISSN is 1878-6561.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Climate Law has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #325 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Climate Law published 24 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Australia (13.3%), United Kingdom (11.3%) and Denmark (9.4%).
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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