Human Rights Review

Aims & Scope

Human Rights Review is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a scholarly forum in which human rights issues and their underlying empirical, theoretical and philosophical foundations are explored.

The journal seeks to place human rights practices and policies within a theoretical perspective in order to link empirical research to broader human rights issues.

Human Rights Review welcomes submissions from all academic areas in order to foster a wide-ranging dialogue on issues of concern to both the academic and the policy-making communities.

The journal is receptive to submissions drawing from diverse methodologies and approaches including case studies, quantitative analysis, legal scholarship and philosophical discourse in order to provide a comprehensive discussion concerning human rights issues.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	16627

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	111

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.300

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	28

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Who’s Sorry Now? Government Apologies, Truth Commissions, and Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia, Canada, Guatemala, and Peru

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Jeff, Cindy

• African Conceptions of Human Dignity: Vitality and Community as the Ground of Human Rights

  Citation: 88

  Authors: Thaddeus

• Economic Sanctions and Political Repression: Assessing the Impact of Coercive Diplomacy on Political Freedoms

  Citation: 74

  Authors: Dursun, A. Cooper

• Improving the Effectiveness of the International Law of Human Trafficking: A Vision for the Future of the US Trafficking in Persons Reports

  Citation: 51

  Authors: Anne T.

• News Frames and Story Triggers in the Media’s Coverage of Human Trafficking

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Girish J.

• Local Evaluations of Justice through Truth Telling in Sierra Leone: Postwar Needs and Transitional Justice

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Gearoid

• “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude”: A critical analysis of international slavery agreements and concepts of slavery

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Kevin, Peter T.

• Human rights and the Kurdish issue in Turkey: 1984–1999

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Hamit

• The Concept of Modern Slavery: Definition, Critique, and the Human Rights Frame

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Janne

• An African Conception of Human Rights? Comments on the Challenges of Relativism

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Oritsegbubemi Anthony

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