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Oxford Journal of Legal Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0143-6503Verify ISSN ↗1464-3820Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,987 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 169 / 1162 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 2000–2001, 1998, 1981–1996), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies is Q1 in Law (rank 169 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.279, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,987 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0143-6503 and its online ISSN is 1464-3820.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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.
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 2.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 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 26 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (42.3%), Australia (10.6%) and United States (9.6%).
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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