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Journal of Law and Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.7), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Law School.
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ISSN 0022-2186Verify ISSN ↗1537-5285Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Law School
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 266 / 1162 | 77th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 379 / 755 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1978–1989), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Law and Economics is Q1 in Law (rank 266 of 1162) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 379 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.592, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 98.
Journal of Law and Economics is published by University of Chicago Law School. Its print ISSN is 0022-2186 and its online ISSN is 1537-5285.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Law and Economics has an h-index of 195 and a 2-year mean of 3.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Law and Economics published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 53. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (55.3%), China (6.3%) and Canada (5.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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