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Ecology Law Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), WoS SSCI. Published by University of California Boalt Law Business.
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ISSN 0046-1121Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Boalt Law Business
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 929 / 1162 | 20th | Q4 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 294 / 307 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1996, 1978–1987, 1973), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Ecology Law Quarterly is Q4 in Law (rank 929 of 1162) and Q4 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 294 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Ecology Law Quarterly 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.137, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 30.
Ecology Law Quarterly is published by University of California Boalt Law Business. Its ISSN is 0046-1121.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ecology Law Quarterly has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Ecology Law Quarterly published 3 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 19. 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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