Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Law journal rankings 2009
34 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Law has 34 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.17 on 2008 to 0.70, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.30. The top three are Global Jurist, Law & Society Review, and Journal of Law and Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
34 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Global JuristDe Gruyter · United States | 8.89Q1 | 2.43 2.33 up from 2008 | 44 | 7% | $2,712 | ||
2Law & Society ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 6.17Q1 | 1.59 0.23 up from 2008 | 99 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
3Journal of Law and SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 0.96 0.11 down from 2008 | 105 | 25% | $3,170 | ||
4International Journal of the Legal ProfessionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 1.00 0.08 up from 2008 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
5Modern Law ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 0.53 0.43 down from 2008 | 234 | 3% | $3,400 | ||
6Journal of Consumer PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 1.03 0.12 up from 2008 | 88 | 20% | $3,390 | ||
7Journal of Electronic PublishingOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 1.66Q1 | 0.61 0.06 down from 2008 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
8Education and the LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 0.41 0.21 up from 2008 | 48 | — | — | ||
9Legal StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 0.50 0.09 down from 2008 | 82 | 17% | $3,550 | ||
10International Journal of Law in ContextCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 0.23 1.18 down from 2008 | 65 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
11Feminist Legal StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.06Q2 | 0.59 0.17 up from 2008 | 64 | 24% | $2,190 | ||
12Indiana Journal of Global Legal StudiesIndiana University Press · United States | 1.02Q2 | 0.50 0.26 up from 2008 | 85 | 11% | — | ||
13The Law TeacherTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 0.22 0.07 up from 2008 | 77 | 11% | — | ||
14Law and CritiqueSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.93Q2 | 0.23 0.10 down from 2008 | 50 | 11% | $3,090 | ||
15Computer Law & Security ReportElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 0.40 0.14 up from 2008 | 228 | — | $4,060 | ||
16Zeitschrift für RechtssoziologieDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.75Q2 | 0.07 0.04 down from 2008 | 64 | 5% | $0 listed | ||
17Law Culture and the HumanitiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 0.21 0.04 up from 2008 | 65 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
18The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 0.14 0.30 down from 2008 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
19Liverpool Law ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.66Q3 | 0.27 0.13 up from 2008 | 48 | 11% | $3,090 | ||
20The International Journal of Evidence & ProofSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.11 0.03 down from 2008 | 63 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
21Australian Feminist Law JournalRoutledge · Australia | 0.59Q3 | 0.29 0.12 up from 2008 | 59 | 25% | — | ||
22Amicus CuriaeOAUnited Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 0.22 0.19 up from 2008 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Social Welfare and Family LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 0.25 0.02 down from 2008 | 74 | 13% | — | ||
24International Journal of Liability and Scientific EnquiryPublisher not listed | 0.38Q3 | 0.14 0.02 up from 2008 | 43 | 5% | — | ||
25Justice System JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.10 0.01 up from 2008 | 39 | 7% | — | ||
26Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuDSpringer Science+Business Media | 0.36Q3 | 0.13 0.01 up from 2008 | 663 | 34% | $3,190 | ||
27Zygon®OAWiley · United States | 0.33Q4 | 0.27 0.32 down from 2008 | 252 | 86% | $2,630 | ||
28Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et SociétéOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.29Q4 | 0.17 0.08 up from 2008 | 100 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
29International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridiqueSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.27Q4 | 0.10 0.16 down from 2008 | 81 | 9% | $3,090 | ||
30Legal Information ManagementCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.21Q4 | 0.31 0.03 up from 2008 | 177 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
31QUT Law ReviewOAQueensland University of Technology · Australia | 0.12Q4 | 0.04 0.02 up from 2008 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
32Environmental Policy and LawIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.10Q4 | 0.04 0.04 up from 2008 | 69 | 0% | $0 listed | ||
33IDP Revista de Internet Derecho y PolíticaOAOpen University of Catalonia · Spain | 0.07Q4 | 0.04 0.04 up from 2008 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
34Theoretical Roman Archaeology JournalOATheoretical Roman Archaeology Conference · United Kingdom | 0.00Q4 | 0.04 0.12 down from 2008 | 39 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Law highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science899
- Education464
- Political Science and International Relations260
- Gender Studies50
- Communication48
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Health36
- Library and Information Sciences36
- Anthropology35
- Law34
- Transportation33
- Demography29
- Urban Studies28
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% 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 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 34
- Window papers (baseline)
- 49,233 +31.1% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.70 +31.2% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.