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Harvard Journal on Legislation is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SSCI. Published by Harvard University.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0017-808XVerify ISSN ↗1943-507XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Harvard University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 656 / 1162 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1987–1992, 1983, 1978–1979, 1975), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Harvard Journal on Legislation is Q3 in Law (rank 656 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Harvard Journal on Legislation 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.493, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
Harvard Journal on Legislation is published by Harvard University. Its print ISSN is 0017-808X and its online ISSN is 1943-507X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Harvard Journal on Legislation has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Harvard Journal on Legislation published 1 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2002 with 1. 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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