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Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), WoS SSCI. Published by Columbia Law Review Association.
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ISSN 0010-1923Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Columbia Law Review Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 867 / 1162 | 25th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 578 / 744 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1227 / 1530 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–2025 (also 1989–1990, 1985–1986, 1980, 1978, 1975–1976, 1973), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems is Q3 in Law (rank 867 of 1162), Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 578 of 744) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1227 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems is published by Columbia Law Review Association. Its ISSN is 0010-1923.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems published 1 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 10. 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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