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Southern California Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SSCI. Published by University of Southern California.
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ISSN 0038-3910Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Southern California
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 547 / 1162 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1991–1992, 1985–1988, 1981–1982, 1973–1979), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Southern California Law Review is Q2 in Law (rank 547 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Southern California Law Review is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.672, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
Southern California Law Review is published by University of Southern California. Its ISSN is 0038-3910.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Southern California Law Review has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Southern California Law Review published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2006 with 3. 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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