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Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis

Routledge · United Kingdom · Est. 2021

ISSN2770-6877

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 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

0.218

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.082

Total Worksi

125

Total Citationsi

210

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.66

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis is an international journal dedicated to the social-scientific study of law and legal pluralism. It publishes empirical research and analysis on legal pluralism from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering all aspects of legal pluralism worldwide and throughout history.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2021

Annual Volume~ 34 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications125

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?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2770-6877

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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

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

Web of Science Categories

Law

Scopus Categories

Law

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Law in Society and CultureLand Rights and ReformsAsian Studies and HistorySouth Asian Studies and ConflictsHuman Rights and DevelopmentJudicial and Constitutional StudiesAcademic Writing and PublishingHuman auditory perception and evaluationComparative and International Law StudiesAnthropological Studies and Insights

Frequently asked questions about Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis

Is Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis: 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 Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis?

Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis 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 0.66.

Is Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.