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Psychological Injury and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 1938-971XVerify ISSN ↗1938-9728Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 60 / 1162 | 94th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 137 / 580 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Psychological Injury and Law is Q1 in Law (rank 60 of 1162) and Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 137 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychological Injury and Law is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.809, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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.
Psychological Injury and Law is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 1938-971X and its online ISSN is 1938-9728.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychological Injury and Law has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 5.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Psychological Injury and Law published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 39. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (36%), Canada (24%) and Netherlands (8.9%).
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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