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Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8), DOAJ. Published by Faculty of Syariah and Law, Islamic Science University of Malaysia (USIM).
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ISSN 1985-7454Verify ISSN ↗2590-4396Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Faculty of Syariah and Law, Islamic Science University of Malaysia (USIM)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 69 / 760 | 90th | Q1 |
| Law | 406 / 1162 | 65th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 310 / 744 | 58th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 311 / 745 | 58th | Q2 |
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 Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 69 of 760), Q2 in Law (rank 406 of 1162) and Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 310 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law 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 1.8, quartile Q1, 90th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.318, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 8.
Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law is published by Faculty of Syariah and Law, Islamic Science University of Malaysia (USIM). Its print ISSN is 1985-7454 and its online ISSN is 2590-4396.
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.
Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 85. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (48.6%), Indonesia (28.7%) and United Arab Emirates (4.1%).
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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