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Human Rights Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1524-8879Verify ISSN ↗1874-6306Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 179 / 1162 | 84th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 361 / 1530 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Human Rights Review is Q1 in Law (rank 179 of 1162) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 361 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Rights Review is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.524, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,090 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Human Rights Review is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1524-8879 and its online ISSN is 1874-6306.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Human Rights Review has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #245 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Human Rights Review published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 70. 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.
In its latest 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.8%), United Kingdom (9.4%) and Canada (6.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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