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Harvard International Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. Published by Harvard University Press.
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ISSN 0017-8063Verify ISSN ↗2153-2494Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 104 / 1162 | 91st | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 113 / 745 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 1996–2019, 1992, 1979), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Harvard International Law Journal is Q1 in Law (rank 104 of 1162) and Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 113 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Harvard International Law Journal 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.687, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
Harvard International Law Journal is published by Harvard University Press. Its print ISSN is 0017-8063 and its online ISSN is 2153-2494.
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 International Law Journal has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Harvard International Law Journal published 1 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 8. 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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