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Michigan Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS SSCI. Published by Michigan Law Review Association.
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ISSN 0026-2234Verify ISSN ↗1939-8557Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Michigan Law Review Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 382 / 1162 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1991, 1982–1983, 1974–1980), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Michigan Law Review is Q2 in Law (rank 382 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Michigan 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.336, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 70.
Michigan Law Review is published by Michigan Law Review Association. Its print ISSN is 0026-2234 and its online ISSN is 1939-8557.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Michigan Law Review has an h-index of 107 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #796 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Michigan Law Review published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 61. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (99.5%) and Canada (0.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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