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Cornell Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), ABDC A*, WoS SSCI. Published by Cornell Law School.
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ISSN 0010-8847Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cornell Law School
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 299 / 1162 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1984–1986, 1975–1981), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Cornell Law Review is Q2 in Law (rank 299 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Cornell 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.039, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 62.
Cornell Law Review is published by Cornell Law School. Its ISSN is 0010-8847.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
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.
Cornell Law Review has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Cornell Law Review published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 5. 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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