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Yale Journal on Regulation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by Yale Law School.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0741-9457Verify ISSN ↗2376-5925Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Yale Law School
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 319 / 1162 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 120 / 248 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025 (also 1998, 1994, 1991), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Yale Journal on Regulation is Q2 in Law (rank 319 of 1162) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 120 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Yale Journal on Regulation 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.238, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 13.
Yale Journal on Regulation is published by Yale Law School. Its print ISSN is 0741-9457 and its online ISSN is 2376-5925.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Yale Journal on Regulation has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Yale Journal on Regulation published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2002 with 2. 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.
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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