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Fundamina

Juta and Company Ltd · South Africa · Est. 1996

ISSN2411-7870

SJR Q3✓ 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 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.143

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

416

Total Citationsi

664

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.26

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Fundamina, a Journal of Legal History aims to afford a platform to academics and practitioners from South Africa and abroad to exchange ideas on a wide range of legal-historical issues. The focus is on the ancient and modern, external and internal legal history of all families of law and is not limited to South or Southern African legal history.

General Information

Country / RegionSouth Africa

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1996

Annual Volume~ 9 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications416

OA Since2017

Visit Journal Website

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Juta and Company Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2411-7870

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

N/A

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

111

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.

LawQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Law

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Legal Issues in South AfricaComparative and International Law StudiesClassical Studies and Legal HistoryLegal principles and applicationsConflict of Laws and JurisdictionClassical Antiquity StudiesEuropean and International Contract LawSouth African History and CultureLaw, logistics, and international tradeAfrican history and culture studies

Frequently asked questions about Fundamina

Is Fundamina a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Fundamina: 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 Fundamina?

Fundamina is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.143.

Is Fundamina indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Fundamina is indexed in Scopus.