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International Journal of Private Law is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Inderscience Publishers.
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ISSN 1753-6235Verify ISSN ↗1753-6243Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 910 / 1162 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–2024 (also 2017–2021, 2008–2015), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
International Journal of Private Law is Q4 in Law (rank 910 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Private Law 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 21st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.106, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
International Journal of Private Law is published by Inderscience Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1753-6235 and its online ISSN is 1753-6243.
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 Private Law has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #827 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Private Law published 6 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 15. 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 30 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from Nigeria (15%), South Africa (13.3%) and Kosovo (10%).
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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