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Leiden Journal of International Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0922-1565Verify ISSN ↗1478-9698Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 152 / 1162 | 86th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 151 / 745 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
Leiden Journal of International Law is Q1 in Law (rank 152 of 1162) and Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 151 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Leiden Journal of International Law 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.033, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Leiden Journal of International Law is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0922-1565 and its online ISSN is 1478-9698.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Leiden Journal of International Law has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #264 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Leiden Journal of International Law published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 79. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (23.9%), Netherlands (14.7%) and Australia (7.4%).
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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