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Open access

Journal of Legal Studies

University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 00472530, 15375366, 2500333X, 23927054, 24579017
SCImago
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WOS
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Impact factor
0.9
SJR
0.450
CiteScore
1.7
Categories
Law
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1983, 1985, 1996-2024
Publications
1 453
Citations
43 191
h-index
98
Publications
196
Citations
10 806
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 organizations
University of Chicago
University of Chicago (50 publications)
Yale University
Yale University (16 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (166 publications)
Romania (79 publications)
Ukraine (17 publications)
Romania (26 publications)
Ukraine (13 publications)
Georgia (12 publications)

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Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
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Economic Inquiry
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Journal of Public Economics
149 citations, 0.34%
Review of Law & Economics
147 citations, 0.34%
Annual Review of Law and Social Science
130 citations, 0.3%
Journal of Economic Literature
125 citations, 0.29%
Constitutional Political Economy
122 citations, 0.28%
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115 citations, 0.27%
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109 citations, 0.25%
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87 citations, 0.2%
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Contemporary Economic Policy
59 citations, 0.14%
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57 citations, 0.13%
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56 citations, 0.13%
European Journal of Political Economy
56 citations, 0.13%
Revue d'Economie Politique
56 citations, 0.13%
Review of International Organizations
56 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Economic Psychology
56 citations, 0.13%
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56 citations, 0.13%
Games and Economic Behavior
56 citations, 0.13%
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56 citations, 0.13%
Criminology
55 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Corporate Finance
54 citations, 0.13%
American Political Science Review
54 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
53 citations, 0.12%
Sustainability
53 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Political Economy
49 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
49 citations, 0.11%
The Journal of Legal Analysis
49 citations, 0.11%
Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
47 citations, 0.11%
Ratio Juris
46 citations, 0.11%
International Studies Quarterly
46 citations, 0.11%
Economics Letters
46 citations, 0.11%
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45 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Bioeconomics
45 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Regulatory Economics
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Political Research Quarterly
44 citations, 0.1%
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43 citations, 0.1%
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43 citations, 0.1%
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Journal of Economic Issues
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Social Science Electronic Publishing
8458 citations, 19.58%
Elsevier
5684 citations, 13.16%
Springer Nature
3872 citations, 8.96%
Wiley
3677 citations, 8.51%
Cambridge University Press
3282 citations, 7.6%
Taylor & Francis
1592 citations, 3.69%
Oxford University Press
1572 citations, 3.64%
SAGE
1403 citations, 3.25%
University of Chicago Press
1366 citations, 3.16%
Emerald
607 citations, 1.41%
Walter de Gruyter
460 citations, 1.07%
American Economic Association
436 citations, 1.01%
Annual Reviews
307 citations, 0.71%
MDPI
178 citations, 0.41%
CAIRN
177 citations, 0.41%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
159 citations, 0.37%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
109 citations, 0.25%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
93 citations, 0.22%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
74 citations, 0.17%
Frontiers Media S.A.
66 citations, 0.15%
Sirey
65 citations, 0.15%
Duke University Press
63 citations, 0.15%
IGI Global
63 citations, 0.15%
OpenEdition
57 citations, 0.13%
MIT Press
52 citations, 0.12%
American Accounting Association
50 citations, 0.12%
American Marketing Association
44 citations, 0.1%
Academy of Management
44 citations, 0.1%
American Psychological Association (APA)
40 citations, 0.09%
Cornell University Press
35 citations, 0.08%
World Scientific
33 citations, 0.08%
American Public Health Association
33 citations, 0.08%
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32 citations, 0.07%
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32 citations, 0.07%
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American Society of Comparative Law
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Japan Society of Civil Engineers
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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The Royal Society
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10 citations, 0.02%
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Centro de estudos sociais
9 citations, 0.02%
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9 citations, 0.02%
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Society for Judgment and Decision Making
7 citations, 0.02%
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6 citations, 0.01%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
6 citations, 0.01%
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Center for the Study of the Presidency
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Transaction Publishers
5 citations, 0.01%
Hindawi Limited
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Baikal State University
5 citations, 0.01%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
4 citations, 0.01%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
4 citations, 0.01%
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
4 citations, 0.01%
Human Kinetics
4 citations, 0.01%
F1000 Research
4 citations, 0.01%
Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
4 citations, 0.01%
EDP Sciences
3 citations, 0.01%
Springer Publishing Company
3 citations, 0.01%
American Academy of Pediatrics
3 citations, 0.01%
Pensoft Publishers
3 citations, 0.01%
PeerJ
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Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)
3 citations, 0.01%
Johann Ambrosius Barth
3 citations, 0.01%
American Thoracic Society
3 citations, 0.01%
Editions Ophrys
3 citations, 0.01%
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3 citations, 0.01%
Joint Commission Resources Inc.
3 citations, 0.01%
Akademiai Kiado
3 citations, 0.01%
JSTOR
3 citations, 0.01%
JMIR Publications
3 citations, 0.01%
American Educational Research Association
3 citations, 0.01%
Bristol University Press
3 citations, 0.01%
Hans Publishers
3 citations, 0.01%
Society of Hospital Medicine
3 citations, 0.01%
Omsk State University
3 citations, 0.01%
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University of Chicago
50 publications, 3.44%
University of California, Berkeley
24 publications, 1.65%
Yale University
16 publications, 1.1%
Harvard University
14 publications, 0.96%
University of Pennsylvania
12 publications, 0.83%
University of Michigan
7 publications, 0.48%
Stanford University
4 publications, 0.28%
Georgetown University
4 publications, 0.28%
Northwestern University
4 publications, 0.28%
Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad
4 publications, 0.28%
Grigol Robakidze University
3 publications, 0.21%
George Mason University
3 publications, 0.21%
University of California, Los Angeles
3 publications, 0.21%
Dartmouth College
3 publications, 0.21%
Indiana University Bloomington
3 publications, 0.21%
University of Bologna
2 publications, 0.14%
University of Southern California
2 publications, 0.14%
Cornell University
2 publications, 0.14%
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2 publications, 0.14%
Columbia University
2 publications, 0.14%
George Washington University
2 publications, 0.14%
Princeton University
2 publications, 0.14%
New York University
2 publications, 0.14%
University of Texas at Austin
2 publications, 0.14%
University of Notre Dame
2 publications, 0.14%
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
2 publications, 0.14%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2 publications, 0.14%
University of Minnesota
2 publications, 0.14%
Hamburg University
2 publications, 0.14%
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
2 publications, 0.14%
University of Maryland, College Park
2 publications, 0.14%
Ankara University
1 publication, 0.07%
University of Tehran
1 publication, 0.07%
University of Sindh
1 publication, 0.07%
University of Cyprus
1 publication, 0.07%
Tel Aviv University
1 publication, 0.07%
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.07%
Near East University
1 publication, 0.07%
UCSI University
1 publication, 0.07%
University of St. Gallen
1 publication, 0.07%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.07%
Royal Holloway University of London
1 publication, 0.07%
Michigan State University
1 publication, 0.07%
Johns Hopkins University
1 publication, 0.07%
Bocconi University
1 publication, 0.07%
University of Melbourne
1 publication, 0.07%
Brawijaya University
1 publication, 0.07%
Covenant University
1 publication, 0.07%
Arizona State University
1 publication, 0.07%
University of Washington
1 publication, 0.07%
University of California, San Diego
1 publication, 0.07%
University of California, San Francisco
1 publication, 0.07%
University of Arizona
1 publication, 0.07%
Southern Methodist University
1 publication, 0.07%
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
1 publication, 0.07%
Liaoning University
1 publication, 0.07%
University of Tirana
1 publication, 0.07%
Utrecht University
1 publication, 0.07%
Philipps University of Marburg
1 publication, 0.07%
German Institute for Economic Research
1 publication, 0.07%
Erasmus University Rotterdam
1 publication, 0.07%
Wright State University
1 publication, 0.07%
University of Alabama
1 publication, 0.07%
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Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad
4 publications, 2.04%
Grigol Robakidze University
3 publications, 1.53%
Ankara University
1 publication, 0.51%
University of Tehran
1 publication, 0.51%
University of Sindh
1 publication, 0.51%
University of Cyprus
1 publication, 0.51%
Near East University
1 publication, 0.51%
UCSI University
1 publication, 0.51%
Brawijaya University
1 publication, 0.51%
Covenant University
1 publication, 0.51%
Harvard University
1 publication, 0.51%
University of California, Los Angeles
1 publication, 0.51%
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
1 publication, 0.51%
Liaoning University
1 publication, 0.51%
University of Tirana
1 publication, 0.51%
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USA, 166, 11.42%
USA
166 publications, 11.42%
Romania, 79, 5.44%
Romania
79 publications, 5.44%
Ukraine, 17, 1.17%
Ukraine
17 publications, 1.17%
Georgia, 12, 0.83%
Georgia
12 publications, 0.83%
Italy, 10, 0.69%
Italy
10 publications, 0.69%
Pakistan, 10, 0.69%
Pakistan
10 publications, 0.69%
Germany, 9, 0.62%
Germany
9 publications, 0.62%
Nigeria, 7, 0.48%
Nigeria
7 publications, 0.48%
Ghana, 6, 0.41%
Ghana
6 publications, 0.41%
China, 5, 0.34%
China
5 publications, 0.34%
United Kingdom, 5, 0.34%
United Kingdom
5 publications, 0.34%
Moldova, 5, 0.34%
Moldova
5 publications, 0.34%
Indonesia, 3, 0.21%
Indonesia
3 publications, 0.21%
Czech Republic, 3, 0.21%
Czech Republic
3 publications, 0.21%
Estonia, 2, 0.14%
Estonia
2 publications, 0.14%
Albania, 2, 0.14%
Albania
2 publications, 0.14%
Israel, 2, 0.14%
Israel
2 publications, 0.14%
India, 2, 0.14%
India
2 publications, 0.14%
Iran, 2, 0.14%
Iran
2 publications, 0.14%
Canada, 2, 0.14%
Canada
2 publications, 0.14%
Netherlands, 2, 0.14%
Netherlands
2 publications, 0.14%
Russia, 1, 0.07%
Russia
1 publication, 0.07%
Australia, 1, 0.07%
Australia
1 publication, 0.07%
Brazil, 1, 0.07%
Brazil
1 publication, 0.07%
Spain, 1, 0.07%
Spain
1 publication, 0.07%
Cyprus, 1, 0.07%
Cyprus
1 publication, 0.07%
Malaysia, 1, 0.07%
Malaysia
1 publication, 0.07%
UAE, 1, 0.07%
UAE
1 publication, 0.07%
Poland, 1, 0.07%
Poland
1 publication, 0.07%
Republic of Korea, 1, 0.07%
Republic of Korea
1 publication, 0.07%
Saudi Arabia, 1, 0.07%
Saudi Arabia
1 publication, 0.07%
Tunisia, 1, 0.07%
Tunisia
1 publication, 0.07%
Turkey, 1, 0.07%
Turkey
1 publication, 0.07%
Philippines, 1, 0.07%
Philippines
1 publication, 0.07%
Finland, 1, 0.07%
Finland
1 publication, 0.07%
Montenegro, 1, 0.07%
Montenegro
1 publication, 0.07%
Switzerland, 1, 0.07%
Switzerland
1 publication, 0.07%
Ethiopia, 1, 0.07%
Ethiopia
1 publication, 0.07%
Kosovo, 1, 0.07%
Kosovo
1 publication, 0.07%
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Romania, 26, 13.27%
Romania
26 publications, 13.27%
Ukraine, 13, 6.63%
Ukraine
13 publications, 6.63%
Georgia, 12, 6.12%
Georgia
12 publications, 6.12%
Pakistan, 9, 4.59%
Pakistan
9 publications, 4.59%
Nigeria, 7, 3.57%
Nigeria
7 publications, 3.57%
China, 3, 1.53%
China
3 publications, 1.53%
Ghana, 3, 1.53%
Ghana
3 publications, 1.53%
Indonesia, 3, 1.53%
Indonesia
3 publications, 1.53%
Czech Republic, 3, 1.53%
Czech Republic
3 publications, 1.53%
USA, 2, 1.02%
USA
2 publications, 1.02%
India, 2, 1.02%
India
2 publications, 1.02%
Germany, 1, 0.51%
Germany
1 publication, 0.51%
Albania, 1, 0.51%
Albania
1 publication, 0.51%
United Kingdom, 1, 0.51%
United Kingdom
1 publication, 0.51%
Iran, 1, 0.51%
Iran
1 publication, 0.51%
Italy, 1, 0.51%
Italy
1 publication, 0.51%
Canada, 1, 0.51%
Canada
1 publication, 0.51%
Cyprus, 1, 0.51%
Cyprus
1 publication, 0.51%
Malaysia, 1, 0.51%
Malaysia
1 publication, 0.51%
Moldova, 1, 0.51%
Moldova
1 publication, 0.51%
Tunisia, 1, 0.51%
Tunisia
1 publication, 0.51%
Turkey, 1, 0.51%
Turkey
1 publication, 0.51%
Finland, 1, 0.51%
Finland
1 publication, 0.51%
Ethiopia, 1, 0.51%
Ethiopia
1 publication, 0.51%
Kosovo, 1, 0.51%
Kosovo
1 publication, 0.51%
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