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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by North-West Unversity.
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ISSN 1727-3781Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: North-West Unversity
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 781 / 1162 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1120 / 1530 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal is Q3 in Law (rank 781 of 1162) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1120 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 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 0.6, quartile Q3, 32nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.179, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$190 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.
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal is published by North-West Unversity. Its ISSN is 1727-3781.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #496 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 544. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (88.8%), Zimbabwe (4.1%) and Nigeria (2.4%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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