International Journal of the Legal Profession is an academic journal addressing the organization, structure, management and infrastructure of the legal professions of the common law and civil law world.
International Journal of the Legal Profession encompasses studies of the work, work practices, skills and ethics of the legal profession as well as the internal management of law firms and chambers. It also considers the methods and extent of provision of legal services. A range of socio-legal information is included involving inter-disciplinary interest from academic and professional lawyers, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and business academics interested in the world of law and lawyers.
Major changes are occurring in the legal professions of America, Europe and Australasia. The profession has become much more open for study and accountability to the public and to government. Academic interest has grown over recent years and study of the legal profession is now well respected and represented within law departments. Scholars have begun to view law as an interesting area of study and lawyers, without any internal methodology for assessing and measuring their work or value, have welcomed the outside interest.
International Journal of the Legal Profession considers these issues at an academic level, but also provides strategic solutions emanating from its literature. It is therefore of interest to theorists within law firms as well as academia
Peer Review Policy: All articles have undergone double anonymized review by two or more reviewers.
Journal metrics
Usage
34K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
0.7 (2023) 5 year IF
0.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.347 (2023) SNIP
0.139 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
11 days avg. from submission to first
decision
31% acceptance rate
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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.
Professor Avrom Sherr - Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, UK
Editorial Board:
Richard Abel - University of California, USA Richard Moorhead - University of Exeter, UK Alan Paterson - University of Strathclyde, Scotland
International Advisory Board:
Paul Bergman - University of California, USA Roger Burridge - University of Warwick, UK Jeremy Cooper - Mental Health Judge, London, UK Jane Ching - Nottingham Trent University, UK Scott Cummings - UCLA Law School, USA Yves M. Dezalay - C.N.R.S., Paris, France Robert Dingwall - University of Nottingham, UK Ronit Dinovitzer - University of Toronto, Canada
Kim Economides - Flinders University, Australia
John Flood - Griffith University School of Law, Australia Marc Galanter - University of Wisconsin, USA Bryant Garth -Southwestern University of Law, USA Terence Halliday - American Bar Foundation, USA Martin Henssler - University of Cologne, Germany Eyal Katvan - Peres Academic Centre, Israel Matthias Kilian - University of Cologne, Germany
Joan Loughrey - University of Leeds, UK
David McQuoid Mason - University of Natal, South Africa Paul Maharg - Nottingham Trent University, UK Daniel Muzio - Newcastle University Business School, UK Daniel Newman - Cardiff Law School, UK Donald Nicholson - University of Strathclyde, UK Mary Ann Noone - La Trobe University, Australia Christine Parker - Melbourne Law School, Australia Rebecca Sanderfur - American Bar Foundation, USA Ulrike Schultz - Fern Universitat, Germany Hilary Sommerlad - Leeds University, UK David Sugarman - University of Lancaster, UK William Twining - University College, London, UK Lisa Webley - University of Birmingham, UK Julian Webb - Melbourne Law School, Australia Michael Zander - London School of Economics, UK
Updated 23-10-2020
Abstracting and indexing
International Journal of the Legal Profession is abstracted and Indexed in: EBSCO (Academic Search Premier, Business Source Corporate, Business Source Premier, Legal Collection, TOC Premier), OCLC ArticleFirst Database, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online
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