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Lex Portus is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by National University Odessa Law Academy.
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ISSN 2524-101XVerify ISSN ↗2617-541XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National University Odessa Law Academy
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 301 / 1162 | 74th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 231 / 745 | 69th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 257 / 432 | 40th | Q3 |
| Transportation | 104 / 169 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Lex Portus is Q2 in Law (rank 301 of 1162), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 231 of 745) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 257 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Lex Portus 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.280, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
Lex Portus is published by National University Odessa Law Academy. Its print ISSN is 2524-101X and its online ISSN is 2617-541X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Lex Portus has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 1.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #238 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Lex Portus published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 75. 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 70 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Ukraine (45.7%), Indonesia (7.1%) and South Africa (6.4%).
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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