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Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), ABDC A. Published by Jefferson Law Book Company of Baltimore.
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ISSN 0022-2410Verify ISSN ↗2162-4127Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Jefferson Law Book Company of Baltimore
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 1123 / 1162 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 726 / 745 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–2025 (also 1996–2020, 1979), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce is Q4 in Law (rank 1123 of 1162) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 726 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 3rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.105, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce is published by Jefferson Law Book Company of Baltimore. Its print ISSN is 0022-2410 and its online ISSN is 2162-4127.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce published 1 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2000 with 4. 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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