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Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. Published by Harvard Society for Law and Public Policy.
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ISSN 0193-4872Verify ISSN ↗2374-6572Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Harvard Society for Law and Public Policy
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 331 / 1162 | 71st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 551 / 1530 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1990, 1985, 1980), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy is Q2 in Law (rank 331 of 1162) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 551 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.384, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 33.
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy is published by Harvard Society for Law and Public Policy. Its print ISSN is 0193-4872 and its online ISSN is 2374-6572.
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 Journal of Law and Public Policy has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 26. 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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