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Human Rights Review

Transaction Periodicals Consortium · Netherlands · Est. 1999

ISSN1524-8879eISSN1874-6306
SJR Q1WOS ESCIScopus / SJR
Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field
Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.
Q1
SJR · Scopus
Top 25% in field
Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ
SJR Scorei
0.524
H-Indexi
42
SNIPi
1.307
Total Worksi
1,002
Total Citationsi
7,880
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.98
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Human Rights Review is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a scholarly forum in which human rights issues and their underlying empirical, theoretical and philosophical foundations are explored. The journal seeks to place human rights practices and policies within a theoretical perspective in order to link empirical research to broader human rights issues. Human Rights Review welcomes submissions from all academic areas in order to foster a wide-ranging dialogue on issues of concern to both the academic and the policy-making communities. The journal is receptive to submissions drawing from diverse methodologies and approaches including case studies, quantitative analysis, legal scholarship and philosophical discourse in order to provide a comprehensive discussion concerning human rights issues.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published1999
FrequencyQuarterly
StatusActive (last: 2026)
Total Publications1,002
Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media
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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

6/11 · 55%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Transaction Periodicals Consortium
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1524-8879 / 1874-6306
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus
Peer review process documented?
N/A
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
N/A
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
N/A
Primary language documented?
English

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
34
259
2019
32
351
2020
37
234
2021
28
153
2022
34
157
2023
26
58
2024
18
7
2025
11
2
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.

LawQ1
Sociology and Political ScienceQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Law

Scopus Categories

LawSociology and Political Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Global Peace and Security DynamicsInternational Law and Human RightsHistorical and Contemporary Political DynamicsHuman Rights and DevelopmentPolitical Philosophy and EthicsPolitical Conflict and GovernanceMigration, Refugees, and IntegrationTorture, Ethics, and LawAsian Geopolitics and EthnographyJudicial and Constitutional Studies

Frequently asked questions about Human Rights Review

Is Human Rights Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Human Rights Review: it is indexed in Web of Science, 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 Human Rights Review?

Human Rights Review is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.98.

Is Human Rights Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Human Rights Review is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Human Rights Review?

Human Rights Review is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a scholarly forum in which human rights issues and their underlying empirical, theoretical and philosophical foundations are explored. The journal seeks to place human rights practices and policies within a theoretical perspective in order to link empirical research to broader human rights issues. Human Rights Review welcomes submissions from all academic areas in order to foster a wide-ranging dialogue on issues of concern to both the academic and the policy-making communities. The journal is receptive to submissions drawing f

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref