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International Criminal Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Nijhoff.
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ISSN 1567-536XVerify ISSN ↗1571-8123Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 614 / 1162 | 47th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 907 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 445 / 745 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
International Criminal Law Review is Q3 in Law (rank 614 of 1162), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 907 of 1530) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 445 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
International Criminal Law 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.278, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
International Criminal Law Review is published by Brill Nijhoff. Its print ISSN is 1567-536X and its online ISSN is 1571-8123.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Criminal Law Review has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #637 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Criminal Law Review published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 95. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (14%), Netherlands (12.5%) and United States (8.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.9 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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