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Dalhousie Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3), ABDC A, DOAJ. Published by Dalhousie University Faculty of Law.
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ISSN 0317-1663Verify ISSN ↗2563-9277Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Dalhousie University Faculty of Law
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 1015 / 1162 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present (also 1993, 1988, 1980–1981, 1977, 1974), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Dalhousie Law Journal is Q4 in Law (rank 1015 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Dalhousie Law Journal 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 12th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.103, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Dalhousie Law Journal is published by Dalhousie University Faculty of Law. Its print ISSN is 0317-1663 and its online ISSN is 2563-9277.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Dalhousie Law Journal has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Dalhousie Law Journal published 9 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 12. 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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