South African Law Journal

Aims & Scope✦ Inferred from recent articles

This journal focuses on South African law, with recent articles examining intellectual property, company law, consumer protection, employment law, family law, tax law, and the law of succession. Specific topics include public interest standing, shareholder meetings, credit agreements, living wills, employee dismissal, spousal maintenance, employee notice periods, disability admissions, treaty-making powers, ownership of personal information, pledge and conditional sales, organised crime, affirmative action, life partnerships, electronic wills, tax disputes, trust-form abuse, and financial assistance to directors.

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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.

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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

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