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Journal of Law and Legal Reform is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), DOAJ. Published by Universitas Negeri Semarang.
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ISSN 2715-0941Verify ISSN ↗2715-0968Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universitas Negeri Semarang
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 152 / 1936 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Law | 471 / 1162 | 59th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 725 / 1530 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 153 / 248 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Law and Legal Reform is Q1 in History (rank 152 of 1936), Q2 in Law (rank 471 of 1162) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 725 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Law and Legal Reform 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 1.6, quartile Q1, 92nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.309, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
Journal of Law and Legal Reform is published by Universitas Negeri Semarang. Its print ISSN is 2715-0941 and its online ISSN is 2715-0968.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Law and Legal Reform has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Law and Legal Reform published 61 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (58.4%), Malaysia (10.6%) and India (4.5%). 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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