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International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0160-2527Verify ISSN ↗1873-6386Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,510 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 217 / 1162 | 81st | Q1 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 93 / 209 | 55th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 295 / 580 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present (also 1978–1984), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is Q1 in Law (rank 217 of 1162), Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 93 of 209) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 295 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.398, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 83.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,510 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.
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0160-2527 and its online ISSN is 1873-6386.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry has an h-index of 106 and a 2-year mean of 2.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 115. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (18.2%), Australia (8.1%) and United States (7.7%).
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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