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Climate Law

Brill Academic Publishers · Netherlands · Est. 2010

ISSN1878-6553eISSN1878-6561

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.525

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.461

Total Worksi

323

Total Citationsi

2,769

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.92

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Environmental Studies; Law; Environmental Science (miscellaneous); Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2010

Annual Volume~ 17 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications323

Publisher OrgBrill

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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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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Brill Academic Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1878-6553 / 1878-6561

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, 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?

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

186

2019

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.

LawQ1

Environmental Science (miscellaneous)Q2

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ2

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the EnvironmentQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Environmental StudiesLaw

Scopus Categories

LawEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Environmental law and policyClimate Change Policy and EconomicsClimate Change and GeoengineeringInternational Environmental Law and PoliciesClimate Change, Adaptation, MigrationInternational Maritime Law IssuesSustainability and Climate Change GovernanceInternational Arbitration and Investment LawEnvironmental Policies and EmissionsInternational Law and Aviation

Frequently asked questions about Climate Law

Is Climate Law a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Climate Law: 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 Climate Law?

Climate Law 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 0.92.

Is Climate Law indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Climate Law is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Climate Law?