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Yale Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), ABDC A*, WoS SSCI. Published by The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc..
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ISSN 0044-0094Verify ISSN ↗1939-8611Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 88 / 1162 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994, 1985–1991, 1983, 1981, 1977–1979, 1973–1975), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Yale Law Journal is Q1 in Law (rank 88 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Yale 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.799, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 100.
Yale Law Journal is published by The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc. Its print ISSN is 0044-0094 and its online ISSN is 1939-8611.
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.
Yale Law Journal has an h-index of 159 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Yale Law Journal published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 6. 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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