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UUM Journal of Legal Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), DOAJ. Published by Universiti Utara Malaysia Press.
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ISSN 0127-9483Verify ISSN ↗2229-984XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universiti Utara Malaysia Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 367 / 1162 | 68th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 603 / 1530 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
UUM Journal of Legal Studies is Q2 in Law (rank 367 of 1162) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 603 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
UUM Journal of Legal Studies 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 2.1, quartile Q2, 68th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.351, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
UUM Journal of Legal Studies is published by Universiti Utara Malaysia Press. Its print ISSN is 0127-9483 and its online ISSN is 2229-984X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
UUM Journal of Legal Studies has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #366 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
UUM Journal of Legal Studies published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 41. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (62.1%), Indonesia (22.1%) and Brunei (2.6%). 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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