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Journal of Competition Law and Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1744-6414Verify ISSN ↗1744-6422Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,245 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 220 / 1162 | 81st | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 337 / 755 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Competition Law and Economics is Q1 in Law (rank 220 of 1162) and Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 337 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Competition Law and Economics 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.138, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,245 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.
Journal of Competition Law and Economics is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1744-6414 and its online ISSN is 1744-6422.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Competition Law and Economics has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #279 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Competition Law and Economics published 41 papers in 2025. 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 19 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (30.7%), Belgium (13.2%) and Germany (9.6%).
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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