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International Journal of Refugee Law is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0953-8186Verify ISSN ↗1464-3715Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,954 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 318 / 1162 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Demography | 49 / 140 | 65th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 261 / 432 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
International Journal of Refugee Law is Q2 in Law (rank 318 of 1162), Q2 in Demography (rank 49 of 140) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 261 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Refugee Law 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.586, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,954 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 Refugee Law is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0953-8186 and its online ISSN is 1464-3715.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Refugee Law has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #426 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Refugee Law published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 77. 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 59 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Australia (21.5%), United Kingdom (19.5%) and United States (15%).
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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