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International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2520-1271Verify ISSN ↗2520-128XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 520 / 1162 | 55th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 222 / 307 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2022–2024), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy is Q2 in Law (rank 520 of 1162) and Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 222 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 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 1.4, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2520-1271 and its online ISSN is 2520-128X.
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 Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 1.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #271 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 51. 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.
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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