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Melbourne University Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2), ABDC A*, WoS SSCI. Published by Melbourne University Law Review Association.
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ISSN 0025-8938Verify ISSN ↗1839-3810Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Melbourne University Law Review Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 572 / 1162 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present (also 2008–2019, 2006, 2001, 1999, 1996, 1991–1993, 1989, 1983), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
Melbourne University Law Review is Q2 in Law (rank 572 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Melbourne University Law Review 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.140, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 22.
Melbourne University Law Review is published by Melbourne University Law Review Association. Its print ISSN is 0025-8938 and its online ISSN is 1839-3810.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Melbourne University Law Review has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Melbourne University Law Review published 5 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 12. 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.
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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