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Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2947-9274Verify ISSN ↗2947-9282Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 885 / 1162 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 597 / 744 | 19th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1255 / 1530 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 2012–2013), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies is Q4 in Law (rank 885 of 1162), Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 597 of 744) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1255 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2947-9274 and its online ISSN is 2947-9282.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #714 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 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.
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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