Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1759-7188Verify ISSN ↗1759-7196Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 48 / 1162 | 95th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 121 / 1530 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 108 / 432 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment is Q1 in Law (rank 48 of 1162), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 121 of 1530) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 108 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.469, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment is published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1759-7188 and its online ISSN is 1759-7196.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 1.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #213 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 34. 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 66 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (29.3%), Australia (18.9%) and United States (11.1%).
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.