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Law and Development Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1943-3867Verify ISSN ↗2194-6523Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 465 / 1162 | 60th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 152 / 283 | 46th | Q3 |
| Development | 198 / 314 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
Law and Development Review is Q2 in Law (rank 465 of 1162), Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 152 of 283) and Q3 in Development (rank 198 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Law and Development Review 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.167, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Law and Development Review is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1943-3867 and its online ISSN is 2194-6523.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Law and Development Review has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #487 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Law and Development Review published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 34. 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 90 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (18.9%), United Kingdom (7.8%) and Canada (6.7%).
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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