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Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), DOAJ. Published by Institute for Oil, Gas, Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development, Afe Babalola University.
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ISSN 2467-8392Verify ISSN ↗2467-8406Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute for Oil, Gas, Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development, Afe Babalola University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 688 / 1162 | 40th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 467 / 744 | 37th | Q3 |
| Development | 253 / 314 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy is Q3 in Law (rank 688 of 1162), Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 467 of 744) and Q4 in Development (rank 253 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy 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 0.9, quartile Q3, 40th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.190, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy is published by Institute for Oil, Gas, Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development, Afe Babalola University. Its print ISSN is 2467-8392 and its online ISSN is 2467-8406.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #348 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy published 81 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 79 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Nigeria (65.5%), South Africa (9.7%) and Ghana (2.3%). 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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