Law journals with enough OpenAlex coverage to rank: legal theory, international and comparative law, regulation and socio-legal studies. All 131 journals are ranked by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, with each journal's quartile in law and its h-index.
Updated August 2026 · 2-year citation average from OpenAlex data
Many law reviews are student-edited and poorly covered by citation databases, and citation averages in law are low, so the list leans towards peer-reviewed international and socio-legal journals and small score differences mean little.
| Rank | Journal | 2026 score | Quartile | h-index | Publisher | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Legal Analysis | 9.6 | Q1 | 33 | Oxford University Press | United States |
| 2 | African Disability Rights Yearbook | 6.6 | Q1 | 6 | Pretoria University Law Press | South Africa |
| 3 | International Journal of Legal Discourse | 2.5 | Q1 | 18 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 4 | Oxford Journal of Legal Studies | 2.0 | Q1 | 82 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 5 | International Journal of Law in Context | 1.6 | Q1 | 37 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 6 | International Journal of the Legal Profession | 1.6 | Q1 | 28 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 7 | Annual Review of Law and Social Science | 1.5 | Q1 | 81 | Annual Reviews | United States |
| 8 | Theory and Practice of Legislation | 1.4 | Q1 | 24 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 9 | SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES | 1.3 | Q1 | 66 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 10 | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW | 1.2 | Q1 | 101 | Oxford University Press | United States |
| 11 | Gaming Law Review-Economics Regulation Compliance and Policy | 1.2 | Q1 | 20 | Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | United States |
| 12 | Griffith Law Review | 1.2 | Q1 | 30 | Taylor & Francis | Australia |
| 13 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE | 1.2 | Q1 | 32 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 14 | Law & Social Inquiry | 1.2 | Q1 | 82 | Cambridge University Press | United States |
| 15 | LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW | 1.1 | Q1 | 150 | Cambridge University Press | United States |
| 16 | Mexican Law Review | 1.1 | Q1 | 14 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Mexico |
| 17 | JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES | 1.0 | Q1 | 127 | University of Chicago Press | United States |
| 18 | Legal Education Review | 1.0 | Q1 | 15 | Bond University | Australia |
| 19 | Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis | 0.9 | Q1 | 8 | – | United Kingdom |
| 20 | Onati Socio-Legal Series | 0.9 | Q1 | 17 | Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law | Spain |
| 21 | Revista de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional-RESI | 0.9 | Q1 | 9 | University of Granada | Spain |
| 22 | Asia Pacific Law Review | 0.8 | Q2 | 19 | Taylor & Francis | Netherlands |
| 23 | Chinese Journal of Comparative Law | 0.8 | Q2 | 16 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 24 | IIUM Law Journal | 0.8 | Q2 | 13 | – | – |
| 25 | International Journal of Cultural Property | 0.8 | Q2 | 42 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 26 | JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY | 0.8 | Q2 | 84 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 27 | Asian Journal of Law and Society | 0.7 | Q2 | 24 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 28 | IDP-Internet Law and Politics | 0.7 | Q2 | 14 | Open University of Catalonia | Spain |
| 29 | International Journal of Discrimination and the Law | 0.7 | Q2 | 21 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 30 | International Journal of Evidence & Proof | 0.7 | Q2 | 25 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 31 | Novum Jus | 0.7 | Q2 | 13 | – | – |
| 32 | Revista Criminalidad | 0.7 | Q2 | 7 | National Police of Colombia | – |
| 33 | Tilburg Law Review-Journal of International and European Law | 0.7 | Q2 | 10 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 34 | Alternative Law Journal | 0.6 | Q2 | 22 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 35 | Derecho PUCP | 0.6 | Q2 | 13 | Pontifical Catholic University of Peru | – |
| 36 | Journal of Criminal Law | 0.6 | Q2 | 25 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 37 | Jurisprudence-An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought | 0.6 | Q2 | 23 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 38 | Justicia | 0.6 | Q2 | 12 | Universidad Simón Bolívar | – |
| 39 | MODERN LAW REVIEW | 0.6 | Q2 | 85 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 40 | Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal | 0.6 | Q2 | 12 | National Council for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Law | Brazil |
| 41 | Statute Law Review | 0.6 | Q2 | 18 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 42 | UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES LAW JOURNAL | 0.6 | Q2 | 26 | University of New South Wales | – |
| 43 | Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence | 0.5 | Q2 | 36 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 44 | Canadian Journal of Law and Society-La Revue Canadienne Droit et Societe | 0.5 | Q2 | 37 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 45 | European Journal of Crime Criminal Law and Criminal Justice | 0.5 | Q2 | 31 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 46 | Juridicas CUC | 0.5 | Q2 | 11 | Universidad de la Costa | – |
| 47 | URVIO-Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad | 0.5 | Q2 | 13 | Latin American Social Sciences Institute | – |
| 48 | European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance | 0.4 | Q2 | 11 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 49 | Journal of African Law | 0.4 | Q2 | 38 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 50 | Journal of Legal Studies Education | 0.4 | Q2 | 16 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 51 | Law Teacher | 0.4 | Q2 | 21 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 52 | Liverpool Law Review | 0.4 | Q2 | 21 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 53 | Revista Chilena de Derecho y Tecnologia | 0.4 | Q2 | 10 | University of Chile | – |
| 54 | Revista Direito GV | 0.4 | Q2 | 22 | Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Direito | Brazil |
| 55 | Revista sobre la Infancia y la Adolescencia | 0.4 | Q2 | 11 | Technical University of Valencia | Spain |
| 56 | Derechos y Libertades | 0.3 | Q3 | 13 | – | – |
| 57 | Direito e Praxis | 0.3 | Q3 | 21 | Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
| 58 | Estudios de Derecho | 0.3 | Q3 | 7 | Universidad de Antioquia | – |
| 59 | Indonesia Law Review | 0.3 | Q3 | 17 | University of Indonesia | – |
| 60 | Legal Studies | 0.3 | Q3 | 45 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 61 | Logos Ciencia & Tecnologia | 0.3 | Q3 | 16 | National Police of Colombia | – |
| 62 | OSGOODE HALL LAW JOURNAL | 0.3 | Q3 | 36 | Routledge | Canada |
| 63 | Prawne Problemy Gornictwa i Ochrony Srodowiska | 0.3 | Q3 | 4 | University of Silesia in Katowice | Poland |
| 64 | Revista de Derecho Privado | 0.3 | Q3 | 10 | Universidad Externado de Colombia | – |
| 65 | Revista de Investigacoes Constitucionais-Journal of Constitutional Research | 0.3 | Q3 | 16 | Universidade Federal do Paraná | Brazil |
| 66 | Revista de Pedagogia Universitaria y Didactica del Derecho | 0.3 | Q3 | 12 | University of Chile | – |
| 67 | Revista Estudos Institucionais-Journal of Institutional Studies | 0.3 | Q3 | 10 | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
| 68 | Revista Pensamiento Americano | 0.3 | Q3 | 9 | Institución Universitaria Americana | – |
| 69 | South African Journal on Human Rights | 0.3 | Q3 | 37 | Taylor & Francis | South Africa |
| 70 | UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LAW JOURNAL | 0.3 | Q3 | 66 | University of Toronto Press | Canada |
| 71 | Vestnik Permskogo Universiteta-Juridicheskie Nauki | 0.3 | Q3 | 20 | Perm State University | Russia |
| 72 | Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Pravo-Tomsk State University Journal of Law | 0.3 | Q3 | 7 | Omsk State University | Russia |
| 73 | Western Journal of Legal Studies | 0.3 | Q3 | 3 | University of Western Ontario Libraries | Canada |
| 74 | ALBERTA LAW REVIEW | 0.2 | Q3 | 24 | University of Alberta Library | Canada |
| 75 | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY | 0.2 | Q3 | 90 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 76 | Cambridge Law Journal | 0.2 | Q3 | 57 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 77 | Comparative Legal History | 0.2 | Q3 | 17 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 78 | Derecho y Ciencias Sociales | 0.2 | Q3 | 6 | National University of La Plata | – |
| 79 | Doxa-Cuadernos de Filosofia y Derecho | 0.2 | Q3 | 22 | – | Spain |
| 80 | Ius Humani-Revista de Derecho | 0.2 | Q3 | 8 | Universidad de Los Hemisferios | – |
| 81 | Jurnal Cita Hukum-Indonesian Law Journal | 0.2 | Q3 | 19 | Jakarta State Islamic University | – |
| 82 | Law and Humanities | 0.2 | Q3 | 15 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 83 | Law Culture and the Humanities | 0.2 | Q3 | 25 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 84 | Legal Information Management | 0.2 | Q3 | 15 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 85 | Prolegomenos-Derechos y Valores | 0.2 | Q3 | 12 | Military University Nueva Granada | – |
| 86 | Review of Central and East European Law | 0.2 | Q3 | 21 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 87 | Revista CES Derecho | 0.2 | Q3 | 12 | – | – |
| 88 | Ciencia Juridica | 0.1 | Q3 | 6 | – | Mexico |
| 89 | Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa-CILSA | 0.1 | Q3 | 15 | University of South Africa | South Africa |
| 90 | De Jure Law Journal | 0.1 | Q3 | 9 | Academy of Science of South Africa | South Africa |
| 91 | Derecho Penal y Criminologia | 0.1 | Q3 | 5 | Universidad Externado de Colombia | – |
| 92 | Dixi | 0.1 | Q3 | 7 | Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia | – |
| 93 | Ratio Juris | 0.1 | Q3 | 9 | – | – |
| 94 | Revista Chilena de Derecho | 0.1 | Q3 | 19 | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | – |
| 95 | Revista Estudios Socio-Juridicos | 0.1 | Q3 | 15 | Our Lady of the Rosary University | – |
| 96 | Revista La Propiedad Inmaterial | 0.1 | Q3 | 8 | Universidad Externado de Colombia | – |
| 97 | SYDNEY LAW REVIEW | 0.1 | Q3 | 15 | Taylor & Francis | Australia |
| 98 | Precedente | 0.1 | Q4 | 7 | Universidad Icesi | – |
| 99 | Rabels Zeitschrift fur Auslandisches und Internationales Privatrecht | 0.1 | Q4 | 22 | Mohr Siebeck Verlag | Germany |
| 100 | Revista de Estudos Constitucionais Hermeneutica e Teoria do Direito-RECHTD | 0.1 | Q4 | 9 | University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos | Brazil |
| 101 | Revista de la Facultad de Derecho | 0.1 | Q4 | 8 | Facultad de Derecho | – |
| 102 | Revista do Curso de Direito do UNIFOR | 0.1 | Q4 | 3 | Fundação Educacional Comunitária Formiguense | Brazil |
| 103 | Trusts & Trustees | 0.1 | Q4 | 15 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 104 | Tydskrif Vir Die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg | 0.1 | Q4 | 5 | – | South Africa |
| 105 | Vox Juris | 0.1 | Q4 | 5 | University of San Martín de Porres | – |
| 106 | Adelaide Law Review | 0.0 | Q4 | 10 | University of Adelaide Press | Australia |
| 107 | AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS LAW REVIEW | 0.0 | Q4 | 5 | – | – |
| 108 | AUSTRALIAN LAW JOURNAL | 0.0 | Q4 | 4 | Thomson Reuters | Australia |
| 109 | Cadernos de Dereito Actual | 0.0 | Q4 | 3 | – | – |
| 110 | COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW | 0.0 | Q4 | 123 | Columbia Law School | United States |
| 111 | CORNELL LAW REVIEW | 0.0 | Q4 | 11 | Cornell University | United States |
| 112 | Denver Law Review | 0.0 | Q4 | 2 | – | – |
| 113 | ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY | 0.0 | Q4 | 30 | UC Berkeley School of Law | United States |
| 114 | Edinburgh Law Review | 0.0 | Q4 | 21 | Edinburgh University Press | United Kingdom |
| 115 | Foro-Revista de Ciencias Juridicas y Sociales. NuevaEpoca | 0.0 | Q4 | 5 | Complutense University of Madrid | Spain |
| 116 | HARVARD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW | 0.0 | Q4 | 5 | Harvard Law School | United States |
| 117 | HARVARD LAW REVIEW | 0.0 | Q4 | 158 | Harvard Law Review Association | United States |
| 118 | Hong Kong Law Journal | 0.0 | Q4 | 4 | – | – |
| 119 | LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL | 0.0 | Q4 | 11 | – | United States |
| 120 | Law Text Culture | 0.0 | Q4 | 16 | – | – |
| 121 | Melbourne University Law Review | 0.0 | Q4 | 16 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 122 | Monash University Law Review | 0.0 | Q4 | 9 | – | Australia |
| 123 | NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW | 0.0 | Q4 | 7 | New York University School of Law | United States |
| 124 | RED-Revista Electronica de Direito | 0.0 | Q4 | 5 | University of Porto | Portugal |
| 125 | Revista Boliviana de Derecho | 0.0 | Q4 | 4 | – | – |
| 126 | Revista de Derecho Civil | 0.0 | Q4 | 5 | – | Spain |
| 127 | Revista General de Derecho Romano | 0.0 | Q4 | 3 | – | – |
| 128 | Rivista di Filosofia del Diritto-Journal of Legal Philosophy | 0.0 | Q4 | 3 | – | – |
| 129 | University of Western Australia Law Review | 0.0 | Q4 | 5 | – | Australia |
| 130 | VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW | 0.0 | Q4 | 80 | University of Virginia | United States |
| 131 | YALE LAW JOURNAL | 0.0 | Q4 | 159 | The Yale Law Journal Company | United States |
Most law journals on this list are published in United Kingdom (31), United States (16), Australia (8), Brazil (7), Netherlands (7).
By the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, the five highest-ranked law journals are Journal of Legal Analysis, African Disability Rights Yearbook, International Journal of Legal Discourse, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, International Journal of Law in Context. The score is a two-year citation average, so check each journal's scope and article types before choosing where to submit.
21 of the 131 law journals on this page are Q1, meaning they rank in the top quarter of their OpenAlex subfield by score. 34 are Q2, 42 are Q3 and 34 are Q4.
A journal is included when at least two of its four main OpenAlex research topics are classified under Law. Journals are ordered by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score: citations received in the latest complete year to works published in the two years before, divided by the number of those works. Quartiles compare each journal with every journal in the same subfield.