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Harvard Environmental Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. Published by Harvard Environmental Law Review.
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ISSN 0147-8257Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Harvard Environmental Law Review
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 417 / 1162 | 64th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 195 / 307 | 36th | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 290 / 432 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–1983 (also 1987, 1989, 1996–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Harvard Environmental Law Review is Q2 in Law (rank 417 of 1162), Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 195 of 307) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 290 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Harvard Environmental 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.262, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
Harvard Environmental Law Review is published by Harvard Environmental Law Review. Its ISSN is 0147-8257.
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.
Harvard Environmental Law Review has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Harvard Environmental Law Review published 1 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 1984 with 2. 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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