Law and Humanities

Aims & Scope

Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law.

For this purpose, the arts and humanities disciplines are taken to include literature, history (including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics and the whole spectrum of performance and representational arts.

The remit of the journal does not extend to consideration of the laws that regulate practical aspects of the arts and humanities (such as the law of intellectual property).

Law and Humanities is principally concerned to engage with those aspects of human experience which are not empirically quantifiable or scientifically predictable.

Each issue will carry four or five major articles of between 8,000 and 12,000 words each.

The journal will also carry shorter papers (up to 4,000 words) sharing good practice in law and humanities education; reports of conferences; reviews of books, exhibitions, plays, concerts and other artistic publications.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	28796

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	17

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.108

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	9

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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 Arts and Humanities and 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.

• Making a genre: the case of the contemporary true crime documentary

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Stella

• Emotional Tropes in the Courtroom: On Representation of Affect and Emotion in Legal Court Proceedings

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Leif

• Ventilators, missiles, doctors, troops … the justification of legislative responses to COVID-19 through military metaphors

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Matilda

• The law of persons today: at the margins of jurisprudence

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Edward, Connal

• Dehumanized and demonized refugees, zombies and <i>World War Z</i>

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Penny, Anthea

• Comics, Law, and Aesthetics: Towards the Use of Graphic Fiction in Legal Studies

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Thomas

• Legal sex, self-classification and gender self-determination

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Christopher

• Struggle Music: South African Politics in Song

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Andra

• Pigoons, Rakunks and Crakers: Margaret Atwood's <i>Oryx and Crake</i> and Genetically Engineered Animals in a (Latourian) Hybrid World

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Jay

• The property of contemporary Chinese art

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Joan

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