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Journal of World Trade is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by Kluwer Law International.
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ISSN 1011-6702Verify ISSN ↗2210-2795Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 356 / 1162 | 69th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 271 / 745 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 441 / 755 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Journal of World Trade is Q2 in Law (rank 356 of 1162), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 271 of 745) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 441 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of World Trade 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.524, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
Journal of World Trade is published by Kluwer Law International. Its print ISSN is 1011-6702 and its online ISSN is 2210-2795.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the International Business and Area Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of World Trade has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #316 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of World Trade published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 51. 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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