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IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), ABDC A, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0018-9855Verify ISSN ↗2195-0237Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$2,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 168 / 1162 | 85th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 159 / 745 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1991, 1989, 1982), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law is Q1 in Law (rank 168 of 1162) and Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 159 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.945, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 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.
IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0018-9855 and its online ISSN is 2195-0237.
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.
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.
IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #359 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law published 122 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 138. 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 38 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Poland (14.5%), United Kingdom (11%) and Finland (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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