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Law and Human Behavior is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SSCI. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 0147-7307Verify ISSN ↗1573-661XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 84 / 1162 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 67 / 692 | 90th | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 61 / 220 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 188 / 580 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Law and Human Behavior is Q1 in Law (rank 84 of 1162), Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 67 of 692) and Q2 in Psychology (all) (rank 61 of 220), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Law and Human Behavior 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.010, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 120.
Law and Human Behavior is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0147-7307 and its online ISSN is 1573-661X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Law and Human Behavior has an h-index of 153 and a 2-year mean of 1.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Law and Human Behavior published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 74. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (67.3%), Canada (10.4%) and Australia (5.9%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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