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Journal of Legal Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SSCI. Published by Association of American Law Schools.
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ISSN 0022-2208Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association of American Law Schools
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 212 / 1162 | 81st | Q1 |
| Education | 606 / 1698 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 1996–2022, 1988), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Legal Education is Q1 in Law (rank 212 of 1162) and Q2 in Education (rank 606 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Legal Education 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.521, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
Journal of Legal Education is published by Association of American Law Schools. Its ISSN is 0022-2208.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Legal Education has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Legal Education published 19 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 35. 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.
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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