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International Journal of Legal Information is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0731-1265Verify ISSN ↗2331-4117Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 865 / 1162 | 25th | Q3 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 230 / 296 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
International Journal of Legal Information is Q3 in Law (rank 865 of 1162) and Q4 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 230 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Legal Information 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 0.5, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.126, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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 Information is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0731-1265 and its online ISSN is 2331-4117.
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.
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 Journal of Legal Information has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #703 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Legal Information published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 45. 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 72 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (54.9%), India (14.8%) and Nigeria (5.6%). 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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