The Nordic Journal of Human Rights is a leading academic journal for human rights research. The Journal takes a broad, multi-disciplinary and pluralistic approach to human rights as a legal, political and social practice. We publish high quality scholarship analysing the past, present or future of human rights from a variety of theoretical and methodological viewpoints. We welcome original, innovative and reflective contributions that advance knowledge about human rights from the perspectives of law, political science, history, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and any other academic discipline with an interest in human rights. Geographically, the Journal takes a global perspective, welcoming submissions on human rights in the Nordic region and beyond. We also publish notes on current legal developments, as well as book reviews and book essays
Founded in 1982 as Mennesker & Rettigheter, The Nordic Journal of Human Rights is one of the oldest academic journals in the field of human rights. It is edited by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo, in collaboration with Nordic human rights research centres. Our Editorial Board consists of leading scholars from all over the world representing multiple disciplines.
All manuscripts are subject to double anonymized peer review by independent, anonymous experts.
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Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Editors-in-Chief Johan Karlsson Schaffer – University of Gothenburg, Sweden Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen – University of Oslo, Norway
Book Review Editor Natalia Torres Zúñiga – University of Oslo, Norway
Editorial Assistant Henrik Heitmann – University of Oslo, Norway
Editorial Board Philip Alston – New York University, USA Andrea Broderick – Maastricht University, the Netherlands Antoine Buyse – Utrecht University, the Netherlands Başak Çalı – Hertie School, Germany Fabia Fernandes Carvalho – Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil Solomon Ayele Dersso – African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Jakob Elster – on behalf of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights Andrew Fagan – University of Essex, United Kingdom Kristen Hessler – University at Albany, USA Louise Holck – on behalf of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark Todd Landman – University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Peter Lundberg – on behalf of Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University, Sweden Sriprapha Petcharamesree – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Elina Pirjatanniemi – on behalf of the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University, Finland Erik Voeten – Georgetown University, USA
Updated 21-02-2024
Abstracting and indexing
The Nordic Journal of Human Rights is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Scopus (Elsevier)
Open access
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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