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Law, Environment and Development Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), DOAJ. Published by University of London.
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ISSN 1746-5893Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of London
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 897 / 1162 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 790 / 876 | 9th | Q4 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 407 / 432 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Law, Environment and Development Journal is Q4 in Law (rank 897 of 1162), Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 790 of 876) and Q4 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 407 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Law, Environment and Development Journal 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.152, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Law, Environment and Development Journal is published by University of London. Its ISSN is 1746-5893.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Law, Environment and Development Journal has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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