Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis - Impact Factor, Indexing, Rank, and APC 2026

Aims & Scope

Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis (the successor of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law), is a leading international journal for publication on the social-scientific study of law and legal pluralism in the broadest sense.

It is the only international journal dedicated to the empirical research and analysis of legal pluralism from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis is a refereed scholarly journal with a genuinely global reach, publishing both empirical and theoretical contributions from a variety of disciplines or interdisciplinary approaches that include law, anthropology of law, socio-legal studies, political science, environmental studies, urban studies, political ecology, science and technology studies, history and development studies.

The journal specifically invites: a) contributions that, starting from a social-scientific approach to law, further current debate in the anthropology of law, socio-legal studies, and legal pluralism; b) contributions that, taking other scientific fields as their point of departure but with a scientific interest in the role of law and legal pluralism, yield important insights from such an interdisciplinary perspective.

The journal welcomes papers that make such original contributions based on research anywhere in the world, both in historic and contemporary contexts.

Such work may include both theoretical papers and empirically-based contributions to disseminate new and emerging scientific findings from fieldwork or other forms of engagement such as activism and advocacy, in the fields of human rights, conflict, migration and mobility, culture and religion, the state, policy and bureaucracy, environmental movements and other rights-based movements including indigenous rights, gender, minority rights and rights to/of nature.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	0.60

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	15236

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	88

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.347

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	30

Impact Factor Trend

Abstracting & Indexing

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

Subjects & Keywords

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

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.