Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Sydney Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), ABDC A*, WoS ESCI. Published by Sydney Law School.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0082-0512Verify ISSN ↗1444-9528Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sydney Law School
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 716 / 1162 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2004, 2001–2002, 1999, 1990), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Sydney Law Review is Q3 in Law (rank 716 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Sydney Law Review 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Sydney Law Review is published by Sydney Law School. Its print ISSN is 0082-0512 and its online ISSN is 1444-9528.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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.
Sydney Law Review has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #822 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Sydney Law Review published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 22. 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 47 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Australia (84%), United States (9.6%) and Vietnam (2.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.