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International Organizations Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
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ISSN 1572-3739Verify ISSN ↗1572-3747Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 414 / 1162 | 64th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 317 / 745 | 57th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 665 / 1530 | 56th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 480 / 755 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
International Organizations Law Review is Q2 in Law (rank 414 of 1162), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 317 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 665 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Organizations Law Review 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.236, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
International Organizations Law Review is published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1572-3739 and its online ISSN is 1572-3747.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Organizations Law Review has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #755 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Organizations Law Review published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 35. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (16.3%), Netherlands (14.4%) and Italy (10.4%).
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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