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International Human Rights Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2213-1027Verify ISSN ↗2213-1035Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 567 / 1162 | 51st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 855 / 1530 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
International Human Rights Law Review is Q2 in Law (rank 567 of 1162) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 855 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
International Human Rights Law Review 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 1.2, quartile Q2, 51st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.207, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
International Human Rights Law Review is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2213-1027 and its online ISSN is 2213-1035.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Human Rights Law Review has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #568 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Human Rights Law Review published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 16. 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 54 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (26.5%), United Kingdom (24.5%) and Netherlands (8.3%).
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.
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