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Chinese Journal of Environmental Law

Brill Academic Publishers · Netherlands · Est. 2017

ISSN2468-6042

SJR Q2✓ 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.

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.274

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.769

Total Worksi

151

Total Citationsi

578

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.56

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Environmental Studies; Law; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2017

Annual Volume~ 18 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications151

Publisher OrgBrill

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?

Brill Academic Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2468-6042

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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

126

2019

2020

2021

128

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.

LawQ2

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Environmental StudiesLaw

Scopus Categories

LawManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Environmental law and policyInternational Environmental Law and PoliciesInternational Maritime Law IssuesTransboundary Water Resource ManagementHuman Rights and DevelopmentArctic and Russian Policy StudiesClimate Change and GeoengineeringClimate Change Policy and EconomicsInternational Law and Human RightsIndonesian Legal and Regulatory Studies

Frequently asked questions about Chinese Journal of Environmental Law

Is Chinese Journal of Environmental Law a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Chinese Journal of Environmental 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 Chinese Journal of Environmental Law?

Chinese Journal of Environmental 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 0.56.

Is Chinese Journal of Environmental Law indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Chinese Journal of Environmental Law is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Chinese Journal of Environmental Law?