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Best Law journals

1,162 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Law. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Government Information Quarterly 23.9 99th Q1 SSCI A No
2 Resources Policy 20.3 99th Q1 B No
3 Telematics and Informatics 17.3 99th Q1 SSCI C No
4 Journal of Business Ethics 15.9 99th Q1 SSCI A No
5 Computers and Security 15.4 99th Q1 SCIE No
6 Artificial Intelligence and Law 12.7 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
7 IEEE Communications Standards Magazine 12.6 99th Q1 ESCI No
8 Ijtihad: Jurnal Wacana Hukum Islam dan Kemanusiaan 12.6 99th Q1 No
9 Accident Analysis and Prevention 12.1 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
10 Computer Standards and Interfaces 12.1 99th Q1 SCIE No
11 Social Science Computer Review 11.2 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
12 Regulation and Governance 10.6 99th Q1 SSCI A No
13 Transport Policy 10.3 98th Q1 SSCI A No
14 International Security 9.8 98th Q1 SSCI No
15 European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context 9.5 98th Q1 SSCI Yes
16 Journal of Quantitative Criminology 9 98th Q1 SSCI No
17 Juris: Jurnal Ilmiah Syariah 9 98th Q1 No
18 Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures 8.9 98th Q1 ESCI Yes
19 El-Mashlahah 8.8 98th Q1 No
20 Marine Policy 8.7 98th Q1 SSCI A No
21 Computer Law and Security Review 8.7 98th Q1 SSCI No
22 Journal of Family Violence 8.7 98th Q1 SSCI No
23 Journal of Islamic Law 8.6 98th Q1 Yes
24 Annual Review of Criminology 8.5 97th Q1 SSCI No
25 Criminology 8.5 97th Q1 SSCI No
26 Journal of Air Transport Management 8.4 97th Q1 SSCI B No
27 Utilities Policy 8.2 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
28 Al-Manahij: Jurnal Kajian Hukum Islam 8 97th Q1 Yes
29 Journal of Human Rights, Culture and Legal System 7.9 97th Q1 No
30 Al-Ihkam: Jurnal Hukum dan Pranata Sosial 7.8 97th Q1 Yes
31 Criminology and Public Policy 7.6 97th Q1 SSCI No
32 Forum Scientiae Oeconomia 7.5 97th Q1 Yes
33 Police Quarterly 7.3 97th Q1 SSCI No
34 Al-Ahkam 7.1 97th Q1 Yes
35 European Journal of Criminology 7.1 97th Q1 SSCI No
36 Journal of Experimental Criminology 7 96th Q1 SSCI No
37 Transnational Environmental Law 6.9 96th Q1 SSCI No
38 European Business Organization Law Review 6.8 96th Q1 SSCI B No
39 International Organization 6.8 96th Q1 SSCI B No
40 Bestuur 6.8 96th Q1 Yes
41 Law, Innovation and Technology 6.8 96th Q1 No
42 Volksgeist: Jurnal Ilmu Hukum dan Konstitusi 6.8 96th Q1 Yes
43 Ahkam: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah 6.7 96th Q1 Yes
44 Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation 6.7 96th Q1 SCIE No
45 Race and Justice 6.7 96th Q1 SSCI No
46 International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 6.6 96th Q1 SSCI A No
47 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 6.6 95th Q1 SSCI No
48 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 6.6 95th Q1 ESCI No
49 Electricity Journal 6.4 95th Q1 ESCI No
50 Journal of Financial Crime 6.3 95th Q1 B No
51 British Journal of Criminology 6.3 95th Q1 SSCI No
52 Forensic Science International: Synergy 6.3 95th Q1 ESCI Yes
53 IET Intelligent Transport Systems 6.2 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
54 Journal of Law and the Biosciences 6.2 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
55 Legality: Jurnal Ilmiah Hukum 6.2 95th Q1 No
56 Information and Communications Technology Law 6.1 95th Q1 ESCI B No
57 Journal of Legal Analysis 6.1 95th Q1 SSCI Yes
58 Life Medicine 6.1 95th Q1 ESCI Yes
59 Journal of Cybersecurity 6.1 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
60 Psychological Injury and Law 6 94th Q1 ESCI No
61 Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime 5.9 94th Q1 No
62 International Journal of Law and Management 5.8 94th Q1 ESCI C No
63 Space Policy 5.8 94th Q1 SSCI No
64 Theoretical Criminology 5.8 94th Q1 SSCI No
65 European Journal of Risk Regulation 5.7 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
66 Justice Quarterly 5.7 94th Q1 SSCI No
67 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 5.6 94th Q1 ESCI A No
68 Journal of Money Laundering Control 5.6 94th Q1 ESCI C No
69 De Jure: Jurnal Hukum dan Syar'iah 5.6 94th Q1 No
70 Homicide Studies 5.6 94th Q1 SSCI No
71 Journal of Genocide Research 5.6 93th Q1 ESCI No
72 Samarah 5.5 93th Q1 No
73 International Theory 5.4 93th Q1 SSCI Yes
74 Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies 5.4 93th Q1 Yes
75 Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 5.4 93th Q1 SSCI No
76 Arctic Review on Law and Politics 5.3 93th Q1 Yes
77 Trends in Organized Crime 5.3 93th Q1 SSCI No
78 European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 5.2 93th Q1 SSCI No
79 Stanford Law Review 5.2 93th Q1 SSCI No
80 Criminology and Criminal Justice 5.1 93th Q1 SSCI No
81 Punishment and Society 5.1 93th Q1 SSCI No
82 Journal of Environmental Law 5.1 92th Q1 SSCI B No
83 Journal of Applied Security Research 5 92th Q1 ESCI No
84 Journal of Economic Criminology 5 92th Q1 Yes
85 Law and Human Behavior 5 92th Q1 SSCI No
86 Policing and Society 5 92th Q1 SSCI No
87 Common Market Law Review 4.9 92th Q1 SSCI B No
88 International Review of Law, Computers and Technology 4.9 92th Q1 A No
89 Yale Law Journal 4.9 92th Q1 SSCI A* No
90 IEEE Security and Privacy 4.9 92th Q1 SCIE No
91 Comparative Migration Studies 4.8 92th Q1 SSCI Yes
92 Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 4.8 92th Q1 SSCI No
93 Al-Istinbath: Jurnal Hukum Islam 4.7 92th Q1 Yes
94 Al-Risalah: Forum Kajian Hukum dan Sosial Kemasyarakatan 4.7 91th Q1 No
95 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 4.7 91th Q1 SSCI No
96 International Data Privacy Law 4.6 91th Q1 SSCI C No
97 Contemporary Drug Problems 4.6 91th Q1 ESCI No
98 Crime Science 4.6 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
99 Violence Against Women 4.6 91th Q1 SSCI No
100 Harvard International Law Journal 4.5 91th Q1 SSCI A No

Rank and percentile are within the Law Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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