About this journal
Aims and scope
Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law. For this purpose, the arts and humanities disciplines are taken to include literature, history (including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics and the whole spectrum of performance and representational arts. The remit of the journal does not extend to consideration of the laws that regulate practical aspects of the arts and humanities (such as the law of intellectual property). Law and Humanities is principally concerned to engage with those aspects of human experience which are not empirically quantifiable or scientifically predictable. Each issue will carry four or five major articles of between 8,000 and 12,000 words each. The journal will also carry shorter papers (up to 4,000 words) sharing good practice in law and humanities education; reports of conferences; reviews of books, exhibitions, plays, concerts and other artistic publications.
"All scholars interested in the relationship between law and literature,
law and philosophy and law and history should make a regular habit of reading Law and Humanities. Lawyers and other legal professionals will find a wide range of articles and reviews that expand their knowledge of the way in which law interacts with a wide range of humanistic pursuits."
Barbara Shapiro, Emerita Professor, Rhetoric Department,
University of California Berkeley
Journal metrics
Usage
- 32K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.7 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.000 (2023) SNIP
- 0.176 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors 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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
General Editors
David Gurnham
Email: [email protected]
School of Law
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ, UK
Consultant Editors
Paul Raffield
Warwick School of Law
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
Gary Watt
Email: [email protected]
Warwick School of Law
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
Editorial Committee
Elena Cooper - University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Sophie Doherty - Dublin City University, Ireland
Julen Etxabe - The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Piyel Haldar - Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, UK
Stephanie Jones - University of Southampton, UK
Matteo Nicolini - University of Verona, Italy
Advisory Board
Jonathan Bate - Worcester College, Oxford, UK
Christian Biet - University of Paris X, Nanterre, France
James Boyd White - University of Michigan, USA
Daniela Carpi - University of Verona, Italy
Simon Critchley - The New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Timothy Endicott - University of Oxford, UK
Lindsay Farmer - School of Law, University of Glasgow, UK
Mark Fortier - University of Guelph, Canada
Simon Gathercole - University of Cambridge, UK
Peter Goodrich - Cardozo Law School, New York, USA
Andrew Hadfield - University of Sussex, UK
Steve Hindle - Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Marta Iljadica - School of Law, University of Glasgow, UK
Michèle Lowrie - University of Chicago, USA
Desmond Manderson - Australian National University, Australia
Ambreena Manji - Cardiff University, UK
Antony Pitts - Composer, UK
Ian Ward - University of Newcastle, UK
Richard H Weisberg - Cardozo Law School, USA
Melanie Williams - University of Exeter, UK
Paul Yachnin - McGill University, Canada
Andrew Zurcher - University of Cambridge, UK
Updated 22-11-2023
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
Law and Humanities is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
- We have two new reviews editors: Matteo Nicolini (book reviews - [email protected]) and Elena Cooper (arts reviews - [email protected]
- Roundtable 2024: Kafka's Imprint on Law and the Arts, July, University of Southampton, co-ordinated by David Gurnham and Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko
2 issues per year
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