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Human Rights is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), DOAJ. Published by Mofid University - Center for Human Rights Studies.
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ISSN 2423-6489Verify ISSN ↗2538-6360Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mofid University - Center for Human Rights Studies
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 1121 / 1162 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1479 / 1530 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 723 / 745 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Human Rights is Q4 in Law (rank 1121 of 1162), Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1479 of 1530) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 723 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Rights is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4, 3rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.108, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 2.
Human Rights is published by Mofid University - Center for Human Rights Studies. Its print ISSN is 2423-6489 and its online ISSN is 2538-6360.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Human Rights has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
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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