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Iowa Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SSCI. Published by University of Iowa.
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ISSN 0021-0552Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Iowa
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 421 / 1162 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1989–1992, 1987, 1985, 1982, 1979–1980, 1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Iowa Law Review is Q2 in Law (rank 421 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Iowa Law Review is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.715, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
Iowa Law Review is published by University of Iowa. Its ISSN is 0021-0552.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Iowa Law Review has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Iowa Law Review published 1 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 19. 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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