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Journal of the History of International Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
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ISSN 1388-199XVerify ISSN ↗1571-8050Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 314 / 1936 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Law | 612 / 1162 | 47th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 444 / 745 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Journal of the History of International Law is Q1 in History (rank 314 of 1936), Q3 in Law (rank 612 of 1162) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 444 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the History of International Law is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.329, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
Journal of the History of International Law is published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1388-199X and its online ISSN is 1571-8050.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the History of International Law has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #488 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of the History of International Law published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 47. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (13.2%), United Kingdom (12.7%) and United States (10.3%).
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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