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Singapore Journal of Legal Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3), ABDC A. Published by National University of Singapore.
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ISSN 0218-2173Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National University of Singapore
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 980 / 1162 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present (also 2019–2021, 2012–2013), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies is Q4 in Law (rank 980 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Singapore Journal of 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.119, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies is published by National University of Singapore. Its ISSN is 0218-2173.
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.
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 27. 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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