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European Journal of Migration and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SSCI. Published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
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ISSN 1388-364XVerify ISSN ↗1571-8166Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 150 / 1162 | 87th | Q1 |
| Demography | 33 / 140 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.9.
European Journal of Migration and Law is Q1 in Law (rank 150 of 1162) and Q1 in Demography (rank 33 of 140), by CiteScore 2025.
European Journal of Migration and Law 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.928, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
European Journal of Migration and Law is published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1388-364X and its online ISSN is 1571-8166.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
European Journal of Migration and Law has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #316 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
European Journal of Migration and Law published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 28. 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 93 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (19.2%), Netherlands (11.6%) and Italy (10.9%).
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.
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