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University of New South Wales Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC A, WoS ESCI. Published by University of New South Wales.
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ISSN 0313-0096Verify ISSN ↗1839-2881Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of New South Wales
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 190 / 891 | 78th | Q1 |
| Law | 488 / 1162 | 58th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 756 / 1530 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2001–2003, 1994, 1991, 1983), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
University of New South Wales Law Journal is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 190 of 891), Q2 in Law (rank 488 of 1162) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 756 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
University of New South Wales Law Journal 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.253, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
University of New South Wales Law Journal is published by University of New South Wales. Its print ISSN is 0313-0096 and its online ISSN is 1839-2881.
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.
University of New South Wales Law Journal has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #211 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
University of New South Wales Law Journal published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 56. 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 45 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Australia (79.6%), India (4.4%) and New Zealand (3.3%). 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.
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