Legal Studies

Aims & Scope

Legal Studies is the journal of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS).

It aims to include a varied range of scholarly articles in each issue, including doctrinal, conceptual and socio-legal analyses and seeks to publish work which truly represents the broad range of interests across all legal scholarship.

The journal warmly welcomes contributions from all those who wish to reach a broad international and UK readership.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.1
2024	1.00

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14347

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	147

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.378

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	33

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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.

• To empower or to protect? Constructing the ‘vulnerable adult’ in English law and public policy

  Citation: 87

  Authors: Michael C, Isabel CH, Anthony J

• The concept of security: an agenda for comparative analysis

  Citation: 83

  Authors: Lucia

• Code, control, and choice: why East is East and West is West

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Roger

• Administrative law and the machines of government: judicial review of automated public-sector decision-making

  Citation: 58

  Authors: Jennifer

• Comply or explain in corporate governance codes: in need of greater regulatory oversight?

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Andrew

• Law in action or living law? Back to the beginning in sociology of law

  Citation: 49

  Authors: David

• Property and contract in contemporary corporate theory

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Paddy

• Legislating intersex equality: building the resilience of intersex people through law

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Fae, Mitchell

• Re-engineering justice? Robot judges, computerised courts and (semi) automated legal decision-making

  Citation: 41

  Authors: John, Adam

• Law and the demoralisation of medicine

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Jonathan

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