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International Journal of Legal Discourse is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 2364-8821Verify ISSN ↗2364-883XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 137 / 1221 | 88th | Q1 |
| Law | 175 / 1162 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
International Journal of Legal Discourse is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 137 of 1221) and Q1 in Law (rank 175 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Legal Discourse 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.326, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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 Legal Discourse is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 2364-8821 and its online ISSN is 2364-883X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Legal Discourse has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 2.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
International Journal of Legal Discourse published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 22. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (53.1%), Hong Kong SAR China (7.7%) and United Kingdom (4.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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