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Islamic Law and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0928-9380Verify ISSN ↗1568-5195Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 652 / 1162 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 951 / 1530 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Islamic Law and Society is Q3 in Law (rank 652 of 1162) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 951 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Islamic Law and Society is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.261, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
Islamic Law and Society is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0928-9380 and its online ISSN is 1568-5195.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Islamic Law and Society has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #662 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Islamic Law and Society published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 28. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.7%), United Kingdom (14.3%) and Israel (10.2%).
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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