Law: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2024
1	Yale Law Journal	ca. 5.2
2	Virginia Law Review	ca. 3.9
3	Regulation & Governance	ca. 3.8
4	Harvard Law Review	ca. 3.7
5	Hague Journal on the Rule of Law	ca. 3.3
-	Transnational Environmental Law	ca. 3.3
7	Law and Human Behavior	ca. 3.2
-	Computer Law & Security Review	ca. 3.2
9	International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics	ca. 3.1
-	Artificial Intelligence and Law	ca. 3.1
-	Supreme Court Review	ca. 3.1
12	Annual Review of Law and Social Science	ca. 3
-	Columbia Law Review	ca. 3
14	Journal of Environmental Law	ca. 2.7
-	Law Probability & Risk	ca. 2.7
-	European Business Organization Law Review	ca. 2.7
17	Journal of International Economic Law	ca. 2.6
18	European Journal of International Law	ca. 2.4
19	Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law	ca. 2.3
-	World Trade Review	ca. 2.3
-	American Journal of International Law	ca. 2.3
22	European Law Journal	ca. 2.2
23	International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law	ca. 2.1
-	Common Market Law Review	ca. 2.1
-	Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law	ca. 2.1
-	Law & Society Review	ca. 2.1
27	International & Comparative Law Quarterly	ca. 2
-	Psychology Public Policy and Law	ca. 2
-	European Journal of Migration and Law	ca. 2
30	Journal of Law and Society	ca. 1.9
-	Legal and Criminological Psychology	ca. 1.9
-	International Data Privacy Law	ca. 1.9
-	International Journal of Transitional Justice	ca. 1.9
-	European Constitutional Law Review	ca. 1.9
35	Human Rights Law Review	ca. 1.8
-	ICON-International Journal of Constitutional Law	ca. 1.8
37	Medicine Science and the Law	ca. 1.7
-	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	ca. 1.7
-	Medical Law Review	ca. 1.7
-	Washington Quarterly	ca. 1.7
-	Asia Pacific Law Review	ca. 1.7
42	Law & Policy	ca. 1.6
-	Industrial Law Journal	ca. 1.6
44	Modern Law Review	ca. 1.5
-	Psychiatry Psychology and Law	ca. 1.5
-	Journal of Corporate Law Studies	ca. 1.5
-	Journal of Law & Economics	ca. 1.5
-	Michigan Law Review	ca. 1.5
-	Psychology Crime & Law	ca. 1.5
-	American Business Law Journal	ca. 1.5

-	Feminist Legal Studies	ca. 1.5
52	Leiden Journal of International Law	ca. 1.4
-	Ocean Development and International Law	ca. 1.4
-	International Journal of Law Crime and Justice	ca. 1.4
-	Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights	ca. 1.4
-	Social & Legal Studies	ca. 1.4
-	Cambridge Law Journal	ca. 1.4
58	International Journal of Law and Psychiatry	ca. 1.3
-	International Journal of Law in Context	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of Empirical Legal Studies	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of Law Economics & Organization	ca. 1.3
-	Behavioral Sciences & the Law	ca. 1.3
-	International Journal of Human Rights	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of International Criminal Justice	ca. 1.3
65	Journal of Competition Law & Economics	ca. 1.2
-	Journal of World Trade	ca. 1.2
-	Chinese Journal of International Law	ca. 1.2
-	European Law Review	ca. 1.2
-	ICSID Review-Foreign Investment Law Journal	ca. 1.2
70	Journal of World Energy Law & Business	ca. 1.1
-	Legal Studies	ca. 1.1
-	European Journal of Law and Economics	ca. 1.1
73	International Review of Law and Economics	ca. 1
-	Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation	ca. 1
-	American Journal of Comparative Law	ca. 1
-	International Review of the Red Cross	ca. 1
-	Oxford Journal of Legal Studies	ca. 1
78	Journal of International Dispute Settlement	ca. 0.9
-	International Journal of Law Policy and the Family	ca. 0.9
80	Journal of Legal Medicine	ca. 0.8
-	Review of Central and East European Law	ca. 0.8
82	International Journal of Evidence & Proof	ca. 0.6
-	South African Journal on Human Rights	ca. 0.6
-	American Journal of Law & Medicine	ca. 0.6
-	Law and History Review	ca. 0.6
-	Law and Philosophy	ca. 0.6
87	University of Toronto Law Journal	ca. 0.5
88	Revista Espanola de Derecho Constitucional	ca. 0.4
-	Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property	ca. 0.4
90	International Insolvency Review	ca. 0.3
91	University of Pittsburgh Law Review	ca. 0.2
-	Revista Chilena de Derecho	ca. 0.2
93	Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis-Revue d'Histoire du Droit-The Legal History Review	ca. 0.1