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Journal of Law and the Biosciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2053-9711Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 54 / 1162 | 95th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 27 / 144 | 81st | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 90 / 466 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 2014), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Journal of Law and the Biosciences is Q1 in Law (rank 54 of 1162), Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 27 of 144) and Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 90 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Law and the Biosciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.077, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal of Law and the Biosciences is published by Oxford University Press. Its ISSN is 2053-9711.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Law and the Biosciences has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 4.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Law and the Biosciences published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 88. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (43.5%), United Kingdom (9.2%) and Netherlands (5.4%).
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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