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University of Pennsylvania Law Review

University of Pennsylvania Law School · United States · Est. 1824

ISSN1942-8537

SJR Q1✓ 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 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

1.513

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.225

Total Worksi

7,320

Total Citationsi

38,785

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.10

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

The University of Pennsylvania Law Review is a premier publisher of original legal scholarship of the highest quality. It serves the legal profession, the bench, the bar, and the academy by providing a forum for the publication of original legal research of the highest quality. We accept and scrutinize approximately 2,000 written submissions annually to select approximately eighteen articles in each volume.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1824

Annual Volume~ 8 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications7,320

Publisher OrgUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School

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Submission Info

Peer Reviewpeer review

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

7/11 · 64%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

University of Pennsylvania Law School

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1942-8537

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

peer review

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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

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2025

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

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Law

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Legal Systems and Judicial ProcessesMagnetic confinement fusion researchAmerican Constitutional Law and PoliticsLegal principles and applicationsLegal and Constitutional StudiesLaw, Economics, and Judicial SystemsLaw, Rights, and FreedomsCriminal Law and EvidenceDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesJudicial and Constitutional Studies

Frequently asked questions about University of Pennsylvania Law Review

Is University of Pennsylvania Law Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for University of Pennsylvania Law Review: 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 University of Pennsylvania Law Review?

University of Pennsylvania Law Review is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 1.513.

Is University of Pennsylvania Law Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

University of Pennsylvania Law Review is indexed in Scopus.