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Public Law is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2), ABDC A. Published by Sweet & Maxwell.
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ISSN 0033-3565Verify ISSN ↗2754-219XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 559 / 1162 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 1992, 1988, 1982–1983, 1976, 1967), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
Public Law is Q2 in Law (rank 559 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Law 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 1.2, quartile Q2, 51st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Public Law is published by Sweet & Maxwell. Its print ISSN is 0033-3565 and its online ISSN is 2754-219X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
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.
Public Law has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Public Law published 1 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 68. 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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