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.
This journal was first published in 1969, under the title African Law Studies (issues 1-18). From 1981 it appeared under the title Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. From 2013, it appear in volume format (Volume 45 onwards). From 2022, it is titled Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis. The journal publishes three issues a year.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via Editorial Manager.
Journal metrics
Usage
65K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.448 (2023) SNIP
0.123 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
0 days avg. from submission to first
decision
127 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
15 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
83% acceptance rate
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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
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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.
Editor-in-Chief Dik Roth (Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands)
Editors Carolien Jacobs (Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands) Elisabet Dueholm Rasch (Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands)
Associate Editors Waheeda Amien (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Maarten Bavinck (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Rutgerd Boelens (Wageningen University, the Netherlands) Jennifer Corrin (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) Ellen Desmet (University of Gent, Belgium) Anthony Diala (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) Miranda Forsyth (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) Anne Griffiths (Old College, Edinburgh, UK) Peter Ho (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; London School of Economics, London, UK) Amalendu Jyotishi (Azim Prenji University, Bangalore, India) Christian Lund (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Brad Morse (Thompson Rivers University, Canada) Vishal Narain (Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India) Barbara Oomen (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) Yüksel Sezgin (Syracuse University, New York, USA) Ido Shahar (University of Haifa, Israël) Rachel Sieder (Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico) Bertram Turner (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany) Janine Ubink (Leiden University, the Netherlands) Patricia Urteaga Crovetto (Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru) Larissa Vetters (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany) Agung Wardana (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia) Melanie Wiber (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
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Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis
(2022 - current)
Formerly known as
The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law
(1969 - 2021)
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