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Journal of Legal Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0047-2530Verify ISSN ↗1537-5366Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 463 / 1162 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1985, 1983), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Legal Studies is Q2 in Law (rank 463 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Legal Studies 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.351, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 72.
Journal of Legal Studies is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0047-2530 and its online ISSN is 1537-5366.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Journal of Legal Studies has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #289 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Legal Studies published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 31. 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 11 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (80.3%), Denmark (9.1%) and Netherlands (7.6%). 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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