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WESTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES

WESTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES is indexed in Web of Science (ESCI). Published by UNIV WESTERN ONTARIO.

ISSN 1927-9132Verify ISSN ↗

Publisher: UNIV WESTERN ONTARIO

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Open accessNot registered as fully open access
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UT DallasUTD top-100 business research
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ONOS · APC coveredOne Nation One Subscription (Govt of India)
Not in the ONOS APC-supported list.
Publishing in this journal is not centrally APC-funded under One Nation One Subscription.

Is WESTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES indexed in Scopus? No — WESTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES is not currently indexed in Scopus.

What is the impact factor of WESTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES? WESTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for Web of Science SCIE and SSCI titles — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.

Is WESTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES in Web of Science? Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.

Is WESTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES open access? No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.

Impact & reach — open metrics via OpenAlex

3
h-index
0.33
2-yr mean citations
0
i10-index
42
works indexed
37
total citations
Papers published per year
010202016: 1 papers120162018: 1 papers120182019: 12 papers1220192020: 6 papers620202021: 4 papers420212022: 2 papers220222023: 7 papers720232024: 4 papers420242025: 2 papers220252026: 3 papers so far32026*

WESTERN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 12. 2026* is the year so far.

Main topics
Multicultural Socio-Legal StudiesLegal Education and Practice InnovationsCriminal Law and EvidenceJudicial and Constitutional Studies

h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. Updated 2026-09-24.

Integrity signals — indicators, not proof of misconduct

  • Scopus statusNot in the Scopus source list
  • Retracted papers None recorded

Retractions and authorship from OpenAlex; Scopus status from the Scopus source list. A signal marks something to look at more closely; it is not a finding against the journal.

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