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Law and Ethics of Human Rights is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7). Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1938-2545Verify ISSN ↗2194-6531Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 452 / 1162 | 61st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 704 / 1530 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Law and Ethics of Human Rights is Q2 in Law (rank 452 of 1162) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 704 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Law and Ethics of Human Rights 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 1.7, quartile Q2, 61st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.265, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Law and Ethics of Human Rights is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1938-2545 and its online ISSN is 2194-6531.
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.
Law and Ethics of Human Rights has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #553 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Law and Ethics of Human Rights published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 14. 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 52 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Israel (40.4%), United States (18.3%) and United Kingdom (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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