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Journal of Human Rights Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1757-9619Verify ISSN ↗1757-9627Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,533 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 39 / 1936 | 98th | Q1 |
| Law | 199 / 1162 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 171 / 745 | 77th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 394 / 1530 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.2.
Journal of Human Rights Practice is Q1 in History (rank 39 of 1936), Q1 in Law (rank 199 of 1162) and Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 171 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Human Rights Practice 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.587, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 30.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,533 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 Human Rights Practice is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1757-9619 and its online ISSN is 1757-9627.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Human Rights Practice has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 1.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Human Rights Practice published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 75. 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 53 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (30.8%), Canada (8.5%) and Australia (7.5%).
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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