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Journal of Shariah Law Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8). Published by University of Malaya.
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ISSN 2462-2206Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Malaya
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 193 / 760 | 74th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 294 / 692 | 57th | Q2 |
| Law | 713 / 1162 | 38th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 485 / 744 | 34th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Shariah Law Research is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 193 of 760), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 294 of 692) and Q3 in Law (rank 713 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Shariah Law Research 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 0.8, quartile Q2, 74th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.141, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
Journal of Shariah Law Research is published by University of Malaya. Its ISSN is 2462-2206.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Shariah Law Research has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #404 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Shariah Law Research published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 29. 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 45 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Malaysia (67.8%), Nigeria (11.1%) and Indonesia (8.9%). 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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