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Journal of European Tort Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5). Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1868-9612Verify ISSN ↗1868-9620Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 291 / 1162 | 75th | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 118 / 283 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Journal of European Tort Law is Q1 in Law (rank 291 of 1162) and Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 118 of 283), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of European Tort Law 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 2.5, quartile Q1, 75th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.474, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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 European Tort Law is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1868-9612 and its online ISSN is 1868-9620.
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.
Journal of European Tort Law has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #380 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of European Tort Law published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 27. 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 73 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Austria (17.1%), United Kingdom (10.7%) and Italy (10.3%).
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.
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