Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Journal of Law and Courts

Country

United States

Universities and research institutions in United States
Media Ranking in United States

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

H-Index

19

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

21646570, 21646589

Coverage

2013-2022

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

jlawcourts@press.uchicago.edu

Scope

The Journal of Law and Courts (JLC) is the flagship journal of the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. In addition to political science scholarship, the journal has interdisciplinary aims and publishes a broad range of research for members of the law and courts intellectual community. The journal is dedicated to combating intellectual fragmentation and promoting communication and fertilization across traditional boundaries. JLC publishes articles tackling theoretical and empirical questions that strike a wide audience of scholars as important across legal and judicial issues relating to politics, process, policy, ethics, justice, and/or culture. JLC employs highly rigorous arguments and methods, and is written in a manner interesting and accessible to scholars with perspectives different from the author's. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Law2020Q1
Law2021Q1
Law2022Q1
Law2023Q1
Political Science and International Relations2021Q2
Political Science and International Relations2022Q1
Political Science and International Relations2023Q2
Sociology and Political Science2021Q2
Sociology and Political Science2022Q1
Sociology and Political Science2023Q2
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20200.792
20210.448
20220.709
20230.384
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
201313
201413
201513
201616
201714
201815
201913
202017
202118
202214
20230
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20130.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20141.308
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20151.615
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20161.564
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20172.291
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20181.679
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20191.655
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20201.207
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20211.136
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20221.143
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20231.403
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20130.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20141.308
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20151.615
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20161.564
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20171.929
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20181.442
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20191.156
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20201.167
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20211.044
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20220.958
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20231.347
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20130.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20141.308
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20151.615
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20161.115
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20171.759
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20181.200
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.724
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.964
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.967
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20221.057
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20230.844
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20130
Self Cites20141
Self Cites20154
Self Cites20166
Self Cites20178
Self Cites20183
Self Cites20194
Self Cites20203
Self Cites20211
Self Cites20223
Self Cites20230
Total Cites20130
Total Cites201417
Total Cites201542
Total Cites201661
Total Cites201781
Total Cites201862
Total Cites201952
Total Cites202049
Total Cites202147
Total Cites202246
Total Cites202366
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20130
External Cites per document20141.231
External Cites per document20151.462
External Cites per document20161.410
External Cites per document20171.738
External Cites per document20181.372
External Cites per document20191.067
External Cites per document20201.095
External Cites per document20211.022
External Cites per document20220.896
External Cites per document20231.347
Cites per document20130.000
Cites per document20141.308
Cites per document20151.615
Cites per document20161.564
Cites per document20171.929
Cites per document20181.442
Cites per document20191.156
Cites per document20201.167
Cites per document20211.044
Cites per document20220.958
Cites per document20231.347
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
20137.69
201423.08
20150.00
20166.25
201714.29
20186.67
20190.00
202041.18
202122.22
202214.29
20230
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20130
Non-citable documents20140
Non-citable documents20150
Non-citable documents20160
Non-citable documents20171
Non-citable documents20181
Non-citable documents20191
Non-citable documents20200
Non-citable documents20211
Non-citable documents20221
Non-citable documents20231
Citable documents20130
Citable documents201413
Citable documents201526
Citable documents201639
Citable documents201741
Citable documents201842
Citable documents201944
Citable documents202042
Citable documents202144
Citable documents202247
Citable documents202348
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20130
Uncited documents20145
Uncited documents201510
Uncited documents201614
Uncited documents201719
Uncited documents201815
Uncited documents201924
Uncited documents202019
Uncited documents202123
Uncited documents202223
Uncited documents202319
Cited documents20130
Cited documents20148
Cited documents201516
Cited documents201625
Cited documents201723
Cited documents201828
Cited documents201921
Cited documents202023
Cited documents202122
Cited documents202225
Cited documents202330
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