The Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law (JERL) of the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL)is the leading refereed journal in the field of energy and natural resources law. Featuring contributions from some of the finest academic minds and most successful practitioners in this area of study, JERL offers global coverage of energy and natural resources issues, research and commentary.
JERL features articles that illuminate legal problems or issues currently faced by governments, companies and international organisations by setting them within their general legal, economic or political context. Areas covered include: oil and gas law; mineral law (covering legal questions relating to minerals, including non-fuel minerals and the nuclear fuel cycle); coal law; water law; and renewable energy law (including legal aspects of matters such as hydro and geothermal power, solar, tidal, wind and ocean energy, and timber and agricultural waste use).
First launched in January 1983 under the editorship of Professor Terence Daintith, now a Professional Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London, JERL is both a practitioner and an academic journal. It publishes articles that record the experience of lawyers resolving practical problems or developing legal devices or techniques, as well as contributions from academics and their research. JERL is distributed to all members of IBA SEERIL.
JERL’s current Editor is Professor Don C Smith, Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Program at the University of Denver (US) Sturm College of Law where he teaches Comparative Environmental Law. All submitted articles are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by at least two independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized. The Editor is assisted by the Journal Board and Editorial Advisory Committee, comprised of members of the Academic Advisory Group (AAG) of IBA SEERIL. Together, they bring to the journal an unsurpassed expertise in all areas of energy and natural resources law.
Journal metrics
Usage
83K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.6 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.5 (2023) 5 year IF
3.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.435 (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.
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.
Associate Editor Kaisa Huhta -University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Journal Board Shane Freitag -Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Canada (Chair, IBA SEERIL) Professor Iñigo Del Guayo Castiella- Universidad de Almeria, Spain (AAG Chair) Sophie Watson -International Bar Association, UK (Staff Editor, IBA) Don C Smith -University of Denver, US (Journal Editor)
Editorial Advisory Committee Vivek Bakshi -Fraser Milner Casgrain, Canada Associate Professor Catherine Banet - University of Oslo, Norway Professor Nigel Bankes -University of Calgary, Canada Dr Lila Barrera-Hernández -University of Calgary, Canada Professor Barry Barton - University of Waikato, New Zealand Brian A Bradshaw -Morgan Lewis & Bockius, US Professor Yanko M de Alencar Xavier -Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil David Estrin - Gowling Lafl eur Henderson, Canada Shane Freitag - Borden Ladner Gervais, Canada Professor Lee Godden -University of Melbourne, Australia Professor José Juan González Marquez -Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Associate Professor Lye Lin Heng- National University of Singapore, Singapore Professor Gunther Kühne -Technical University of CIausthaI/University of Göttingen, Germany Professor Alastair Lucas -University of Calgary, Canada Dr Wang Mingyuan -Tsinghua University, China Milton Montoya -Externado Colombia University, Colombia Professor Hanri Mostert -University of Cape Town Faculty of Law, South Africa Professor Yinka Omorogbe -University of Ibadan, Nigeria Professor Lee Paddock -George Washington University, US Professor Lavanya Rajamani -Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India Ignacio Randle - Estudio Randle, Argentina Professor Catherine Redgwell -University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Professor Dr Martha Roggenkamp -University of Groningen and Director of the Groningen Centre of Energy Law, the Netherlands Dr Sergey Seliverstov - Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia Thomas P Wilson -Patton Boggs, UAE John Wright - Goodman Derrick, UK Professor Donald Zillman - University of Maine at Portland, US
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