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Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 1389-1359Verify ISSN ↗1574-096XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 507 / 1162 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2015–2016, 1998–2013), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is Q2 in Law (rank 507 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 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 1.4, quartile Q2, 56th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.284, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 1389-1359 and its online ISSN is 1574-096X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #581 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 11. 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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