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South African Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Juta and Company Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0258-2503Verify ISSN ↗1996-2177Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 926 / 1162 | 20th | 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 2019–present (also 2001–2002, 1997, 1977–1978), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
South African Law Journal is Q4 in Law (rank 926 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
South African 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 20th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.166, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
South African Law Journal is published by Juta and Company Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0258-2503 and its online ISSN is 1996-2177.
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.
South African Law Journal has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #816 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
South African Law Journal published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 50. 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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