Journal rankings · indicator year 2007
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Subfield ranking · 2007
Law journal rankings 2007
32 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Law has 32 ranked journals in 2007. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2006 to 0.43, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.65. The top three are Law & Society Review, International Journal of the Legal Profession, and Modern Law Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
32 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2007. | Compare |
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1Law & Society ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 5.52Q1 | 1.29 0.13 up from 2006 | 108 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
2International Journal of the Legal ProfessionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 0.69 0.25 up from 2006 | 47 | 6% | — | ||
3Modern Law ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 0.68 0.36 up from 2006 | 234 | 8% | $3,400 | ||
4Education and the LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 1.12 0.43 up from 2006 | 48 | 5% | — | ||
5Journal of Consumer PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 1.00 0.32 up from 2006 | 65 | 18% | $3,390 | ||
6Legal StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 0.55 0.29 up from 2006 | 84 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
7Journal of Law and SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 0.66 0.47 up from 2006 | 85 | 15% | $3,170 | ||
8Indiana Journal of Global Legal StudiesIndiana University Press · United States | 1.65Q1 | 0.19 0.25 down from 2006 | 135 | 9% | — | ||
9Feminist Legal StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 0.58 0.26 up from 2006 | 55 | 10% | $2,190 | ||
10Journal of Social Welfare and Family LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 0.48 0.17 up from 2006 | 68 | 18% | — | ||
11International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridiqueSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 0.11 0.12 down from 2006 | 81 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
12Australian Feminist Law JournalRoutledge · Australia | 0.87Q2 | 0.25 0.01 up from 2006 | 46 | 10% | — | ||
13The Law TeacherTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 0.33 0.03 up from 2006 | 59 | 16% | — | ||
14Law Culture and the HumanitiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 0.26 0.03 down from 2006 | 47 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
15Law and CritiqueSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.49Q2 | 0.18 0.11 down from 2006 | 49 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
16International Journal of Discrimination and the LawSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.46Q2 | 0.22 0.22 up from 2006 | 30 | 36% | $3,650 | ||
17Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et SociétéOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.40Q3 | 0.14 0.01 up from 2006 | 109 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
18QUT Law ReviewOAQueensland University of Technology · Australia | 0.37Q3 | 0.00 0.15 down from 2006 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
19Justice System JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.06 0.12 down from 2006 | 41 | 15% | — | ||
20Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuDSpringer Science+Business Media | 0.35Q3 | 0.08no 2006 value | 238 | 10% | $3,190 | — | |
21Liverpool Law ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.32Q3 | 0.18 0.13 up from 2006 | 31 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
22International Journal of Law in ContextCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.30Q3 | 0.18 0.01 up from 2006 | 40 | 15% | $3,550 | ||
23Computer Law & Security ReportElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.30Q3 | 0.13 0.06 down from 2006 | 234 | 2% | $4,060 | ||
24Zygon®OAWiley · United States | 0.29Q3 | 0.28 0.05 up from 2006 | 241 | 76% | $2,630 | ||
25Theoretical Roman Archaeology JournalOATheoretical Roman Archaeology Conference · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 0.08 0.33 down from 2006 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
26Zeitschrift für RechtssoziologieDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.21Q4 | 0.07 0.05 up from 2006 | 66 | 9% | $0 listed | ||
27Legal Information ManagementCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.18Q4 | 0.03 0.01 down from 2006 | 190 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
28The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.16Q4 | 0.16 0.09 down from 2006 | 31 | 8% | — | ||
29Issues in Legal ScholarshipDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.09Q4 | 0.03 0.01 down from 2006 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
30Amicus CuriaeOAUnited Kingdom | 0.07Q4 | 0.02 0.02 down from 2006 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
31IDP Revista de Internet Derecho y PolíticaOAOpen University of Catalonia · Spain | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 41 | 100% | — | ||
31Environmental Policy and LawIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 54 | 0% | $0 listed |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Law highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science826
- Education426
- Political Science and International Relations248
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies43
- Communication38
- Health34
- Library and Information Sciences34
- Safety Research33
- Law32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Demography27
- Transportation27
- Urban Studies25
- Geography, Planning and Development17
- Cultural Studies9
- Development2
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Law journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2004–2006, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 32
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,263 +44.3% from indicator year 2004
- Median OJR
- 0.43 -10.9% from indicator year 2004
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 26 | 24 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 36 | 39 | 37 | 40 | 45 | 42 | 46 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 47 | 45 | 46 | 46 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,760 | 23,088 | 25,138 | 27,078 | 29,298 | 32,993 | 37,542 | 42,263 | 45,900 | 49,233 | 52,379 | 56,365 | 60,266 | 63,498 | 67,376 | 75,231 | 83,225 | 90,875 | 93,598 | 96,498 | 99,517 | 107,426 | 115,990 | 118,267 | 121,355 | 126,586 | |
| Median OJR | 0.526 | 0.55 | 0.483 | 0.478 | 0.482 | 0.41 | 0.535 | 0.43 | 0.530 | 0.70 | 0.65 | 0.52 | 0.88 | 0.86 | 0.74 | 0.87 | 0.8856 | 0.91 | 0.95 | 0.99 | 0.901 | 0.85 | 0.896 | 0.8862 | 0.83 | 0.81 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.