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Journal of Environmental Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), ABDC B, 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 0952-8873Verify ISSN ↗1464-374XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,045 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 82 / 1162 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 150 / 432 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
Journal of Environmental Law is Q1 in Law (rank 82 of 1162) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 150 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Environmental Law 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.105, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,045 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 Environmental Law is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0952-8873 and its online ISSN is 1464-374X.
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 Commercial law.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Environmental Law has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Environmental Law published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 45. 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 59 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (42.4%), United States (10.7%) and Australia (9.3%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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