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International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1360-9939Verify ISSN ↗1464-3707Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,535 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 474 / 1162 | 59th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 729 / 1530 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 2002, 1996–1997), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family is Q2 in Law (rank 474 of 1162) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 729 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.331, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,535 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, Policy and the Family is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1360-9939 and its online ISSN is 1464-3707.
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, Policy and the Family has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #517 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 61. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (24.1%), Australia (6.9%) and Belgium (6.4%).
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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