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Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by Northwestern University Press.
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ISSN 0196-3228Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 827 / 1162 | 28th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 410 / 456 | 10th | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 472 / 506 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business is Q3 in Law (rank 827 of 1162), Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 410 of 456) and Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 472 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 28th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.156, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business is published by Northwestern University Press. Its ISSN is 0196-3228.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 3. 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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