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European Journal of Law and Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0929-1261Verify ISSN ↗1572-9990Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$2,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 216 / 1162 | 81st | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 329 / 755 | 56th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 233 / 456 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
European Journal of Law and Economics is Q1 in Law (rank 216 of 1162), Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 329 of 755) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 233 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
European Journal of Law and Economics 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.579, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,490 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
European Journal of Law and Economics is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0929-1261 and its online ISSN is 1572-9990.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
European Journal of Law and Economics has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 2.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
European Journal of Law and Economics published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 42. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from France (17.2%), Germany (15.3%) and Italy (13%).
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.
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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