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Journal of Legal Analysis is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1946-5319Verify ISSN ↗2161-7201Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 56 / 1162 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2019–2022, 2013–2017), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
Journal of Legal Analysis is Q1 in Law (rank 56 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Legal Analysis 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.210, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
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 Legal Analysis is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1946-5319 and its online ISSN is 2161-7201.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Legal Analysis has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 11.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Legal Analysis published 14 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 39 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (71.8%), Israel (8.3%) and United Kingdom (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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