THE established international forum for high quality analysis of corporate, securities and financial law, The Journal of Corporate Law Studies is:
vital for teaching and research,
vital for practice,
vital for regulation, law and policy-making.
We cover corporate law and corporate governance, capital market and broader financial regulation, and restructuring and insolvency. Our strong global perspective and interdisciplinary understanding of financial, economic and political contexts and the impact of technological developments makes us the "go to" source for a fully developed, rigorously analytical view of the area - anyone who works in any field where corporate law arises cannot afford to be without it.
"Provides the readership with a diet of articles and reviews that make wide-ranging, informed and critical comment on the current state of corporate law and the policy imperatives for change or stability … essential to the intelligent assessment of the state of UK corporate law."
Sarah Worthington, Gray's Inn and London School of Economics
"An excellent journal particularly useful for its theoretical and comparative breadth. Deserves to be read by any serious scholar in the field."
Gerard McCormack, University of Leeds
"Invaluable for its interesting, topical and wide-ranging articles written from a variety of perspectives, national and international."
Brenda Hannigan, University of Southampton
Journal metrics
Usage
57K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
1.2 (2023) 5 year IF
1.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.331 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
7 days avg. from submission to first
decision
70 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
22 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
12% acceptance rate
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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
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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.
Editorial Committee: John Armour -Professor of Law and Finance, University of Oxford Luca Enriques -Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford Eilís Ferran -Professor of Company and Securities Law, University of Cambridge Jennifer Payne -Professor of Corporate Finance Law, University of Oxford Bobby Reddy - Professor of Corporate Law and Governance, University of Cambridge Felix Steffek - Professor of Law and J M Keynes Fellow in Financial Economics, University of Cambridge
Editorial Advisory Board: Lady Mary Arden - Justice of the Supreme Court, UK Professor Marco Becht - Université Libre de Bruxelles and Executive Director: ECGI Professor Brian Cheffins -University of Cambridge Professor John Coffee - Columbia Law School Professor Paul Davies - University of Oxford Professor Simon Deakin - University of Cambridge Professor Dr Horst Eidenmüller -University of Oxford Professor Ross Grantham- University of Queensland Professor Henry Hansmann - Yale Law School Vanessa Knapp -Independent Consultant; Visiting Professor, Queen Mary, University of London Professor Reinier Kraakman - Harvard Law School Professor Colin Mayer - University of Oxford Professor Dan Prentice - University of Oxford Professor Roberta Romano - Yale Law School Mr Justice Nick Segal - Judge of the Grand Court, Cayman Islands and Erskine Chambers, London Dr Geof Stapledon - Group ESG Officer at BHP Professor Dr Christine Windbichler - Humboldt University Berlin Professor Jaap Winter- University of Amsterdam; President, Vrije University, Amsterdam Professor Eddy Wymeersch -Ghent University Law School
Updated 16-11-2022
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Corporate Law Studies is currently abstracted/indexed in: J-Gate, Scopus, Hein On-Line, Informit - The Source for Online Australasian Information, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.
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