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University of Toronto Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Toronto Press.
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ISSN 0042-0220Verify ISSN ↗1710-1174Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 585 / 1162 | 49th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 874 / 1530 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 1991–1993, 1989, 1981, 1977, 1974–1975), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
University of Toronto Law Journal is Q3 in Law (rank 585 of 1162) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 874 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
University of Toronto Law Journal 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.314, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
University of Toronto Law Journal is published by University of Toronto Press. Its print ISSN is 0042-0220 and its online ISSN is 1710-1174.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences 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 Toronto Law Journal has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #625 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
University of Toronto Law Journal published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 55. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Canada (51.2%), United States (16.3%) and Israel (9%). 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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