Law: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Regulation & Governance	17
-	Artificial Intelligence and Law	17
3	European Business Organization Law Review	14
4	Law and Human Behavior	13
-	International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics	13
-	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	13
7	Annual Review of Law and Social Science	12
8	Psychology Public Policy and Law	11
-	Law & Society Review	11
10	European Journal of Law and Economics	10
-	International Journal of Law Crime and Justice	10
-	Journal of Environmental Law	10
-	American Journal of International Law	10
-	Journal of International Economic Law	10
-	Journal of Law & Economics	10
-	Psychology Crime & Law	10
17	International Journal of Human Rights	9
-	Journal of Law Economics & Organization	9
-	Medicine Science and the Law	9
-	Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law	9
-	International Journal of Law and Psychiatry	9
-	International Review of Law and Economics	9
-	Behavioral Sciences & the Law	9
24	Common Market Law Review	8
-	Hague Journal on the Rule of Law	8
-	International Data Privacy Law	8
-	Journal of Empirical Legal Studies	8
-	Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation	8
-	Legal and Criminological Psychology	8
-	Psychiatry Psychology and Law	8
-	Social & Legal Studies	8
-	Transnational Environmental Law	8
-	World Trade Review	8
-	Asia Pacific Law Review	8
-	International & Comparative Law Quarterly	8
-	Washington Quarterly	8
37	ICON-International Journal of Constitutional Law	7
-	Industrial Law Journal	7
-	International Journal of Transitional Justice	7
-	International Review of the Red Cross	7
-	Journal of Law and Society	7
-	Leiden Journal of International Law	7
-	American Business Law Journal	7
-	European Journal of International Law	7
-	Feminist Legal Studies	7
-	Human Rights Law Review	7
-	International Journal of Law in Context	7
-	International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law	7
-	Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law	7
-	Law & Policy	7

-	Medical Law Review	7
52	European Constitutional Law Review	6
-	Journal of Competition Law & Economics	6
-	Journal of World Trade	6
-	Modern Law Review	6
-	Ocean Development and International Law	6
-	European Journal of Migration and Law	6
-	International Journal of Evidence & Proof	6
-	Legal Studies	6
-	Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights	6
-	American Journal of Comparative Law	6
-	American Journal of Law & Medicine	6
63	European Law Journal	5
-	Law Probability & Risk	5
-	Cambridge Law Journal	5
-	Journal of Corporate Law Studies	5
-	Journal of International Criminal Justice	5
-	Journal of World Energy Law & Business	5
-	Oxford Journal of Legal Studies	5
70	Journal of International Dispute Settlement	4
-	University of Toronto Law Journal	4
-	ICSID Review-Foreign Investment Law Journal	4
-	Journal of African Law	4
-	Justice System Journal	4
-	Law and History Review	4
-	Law and Philosophy	4
-	Chinese Journal of International Law	4
78	International Insolvency Review	3
-	International Journal of Law Policy and the Family	3
-	Juvenile and Family Court Journal	3
-	Supreme Court Review	3
-	Michigan Law Review	3
-	Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property	3
-	Review of Central and East European Law	3
85	Journal of Legal Medicine	2
-	Revista Espanola de Derecho Constitucional	2
-	South African Journal on Human Rights	2
-	Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis-Revue d'Histoire du Droit-The Legal History Review	2
-	University of Pittsburgh Law Review	2