About this journal
Aims and scope
Peer Review Integrity
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 via email to [email protected]
Journal metrics
Usage
- 6K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.000 (2023) SNIP
- 0.000 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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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
Editor-in-Chief
Li Guo, Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Senior Editor
Ruoying Chen, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Yifeng Cheng, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Wei Gao, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Honghai Li, Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Chun Peng, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Su Jiang, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Tian Yan, Assistant Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Qi Yu, Assistant Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Yongle Zhang, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Yilu Zuo, Assistant Professor, Peking University Law School, China
Advisory Board
Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School, USA
Ginmaria Ajani, Professor, Department of Law, University of Torino, Italy
William P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and Director of East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, USA
Mads Andenaes, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
Weijen Chang, Professor Emeritus, Institute of History and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, China
Albert H.Y. Chen, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Donald C. Clarke, David Weaver Research Professor of Law, School of Law, George Washington University, USA
Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for East Asian Studies, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Chair Professor of Law, School of Law, UC Berkeley, USA
Paul Gewirtz, Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of China Center, Yale Law School, USA
Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar and Professor of Political Science, Chicago Law School, USA
Victor P. Goldberg, Jerome L. Greene Professor Emeritus of Transactional Law, Columbia Law School, USA
George A. Hay, Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Cornell Law School, USA
Eric Hilgendorf, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Wurzburg, Germany
James B. Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts, School of Law, New York University, USA
David T. Johnson, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii, USA
David W. Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA
Benjamin Liebman, Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Director of Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School, USA
Bing Ling, Professor of Chinese Law, School of Law, Sydney University, Australia
Sida Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada
Joseph Jude Norton, James L. Walsh Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Financial Institutions and Professor of Law, School of Law, Southern Methodist University, USA
Joseph Raz, Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, USA
Paul H. Robinson, Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Bernd Schünemann, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Munich, Germany
Ulrich Sieber, Director and Professor, Max Plank Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany
Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, School of Law, Northwestern University, USA
Weiming Tu, Director and Professor, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, China
Frank K. Upham, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, School of Law, New York University, USA
Alex Wang, Professor of Law, School of Law, UCLA, USA
Yuhua Wang, Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University, USA
Thomas Weigend, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne, Germany
XingzhongYu, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor in Chinese Law, Cornell Law School, USA
Taisu Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School, USA
Xueguang Zhou, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development and FSI Senior Senior Fellow, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, USA
Suli Zhu, Professor of Law, School of Law, Peking University, China
Franklin E. Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, School of Law, UC Berkeley, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Peking University Law Journal is indexed in:
-Scopus
Open access
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