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Ratio Juris

Basil Blackwell · United Kingdom · Est. 1988

ISSN1467-9337

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.169

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.032

Total Worksi

1,328

Total Citationsi

15,118

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.52

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope✦ Inferred from recent articles

Ratio Juris publishes articles on jurisprudence and legal philosophy, exploring diverse philosophical ideas about law. Recent contributions engage with conceptual analysis of law, the nature of legal theory, and the relationship between concepts and legal systems. The journal also features discussions on legal certainty, the rule of law, constitutionalism, and the methodology of legal science, including analyses of specific legal doctrines and theories.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1988

Annual Volume~ 29 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,328

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Basil Blackwell

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1467-9337

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

107

2019

108

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

LawQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Law

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Judicial and Constitutional StudiesPolitical Philosophy and EthicsLaw in Society and CultureLegal principles and applicationsFree Will and AgencyPhilosophical Ethics and TheoryEuropean and International Law StudiesAmerican Constitutional Law and PoliticsHuman auditory perception and evaluationWar, Ethics, and Justification

Frequently asked questions about Ratio Juris

Is Ratio Juris a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Ratio Juris: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Ratio Juris?

Ratio Juris is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.169.

Is Ratio Juris indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Ratio Juris is indexed in Scopus.