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Law and Development Review

Walter de Gruyter GmbH · Germany · Est. 2008

ISSN1943-3867

SJR Q3✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.167

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.595

Total Worksi

386

Total Citationsi

1,716

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.43

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Law; Development; Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2008

Annual Volume~ 20 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications386

Publisher OrgDe Gruyter

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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

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1943-3867

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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

160

2019

137

2020

121

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

DevelopmentQ4

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Law

Scopus Categories

LawEconomics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Development

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Human Rights and DevelopmentWorld Trade Organization LawInternational Arbitration and Investment LawGlobal trade and economicsInternational Development and AidCorruption and Economic DevelopmentLegal Issues in South AfricaLand Rights and ReformsCorporate Law and Human RightsEnvironmental law and policy

Frequently asked questions about Law and Development Review

Is Law and Development Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Law and Development 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 Law and Development Review?

Law and Development 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 0.43.

Is Law and Development Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Law and Development Review is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Law and Development Review?