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Artificial Intelligence and Law
ISSN 0924-8463 · eISSN 1572-8382 · SPRINGER · NETHERLANDS · 4 issues per year
Artificial Intelligence and Law: CAS Zone 2 · Computer Science (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 5.1; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,190; median 238 days to acceptance (46 articles, last 24 months); 60 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Artificial Intelligence and Law is published by SPRINGER and is in Zone 2 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Artificial Intelligence in Law, Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, together about 48.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Artificial Intelligence and Law journal seeks original papers that address the development of formal or computational models of legal knowledge, reasoning, and decision-making. The journal welcomes in-depth studies reporting on: Innovative AI methods, tools, systems, datasets, and applications for use in the legal domain, where the study focuses on novel aspects of the technical implementation and the automation of various aspects of legal practice. Substantial contributions of a technical, empirical, or formal nature concerning the legal, ethical, and social implications of the use of AI in the legal domain. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Computational models of legal reasoning and decision making; judgmental reasoning, adversarial reasoning, case-based reasoning, deontic reasoning, and normative reasoning. Formal representation of legal knowledge: deontic notions, normative modalities, rights, factors, values, rules. Specialized logics for law. Legal expert systems; statutory systems, legal practice systems, predictive systems, and normative systems. AI and law support for legislative drafting, judicial decision-making, and public administration. Intelligent processing of legal documents; conceptual retrieval of cases and statutes, automatic text understanding, intelligent document assembly systems, hypertext, and semantic markup of legal documents. Intelligent processing of legal information on the World Wide Web, legal ontologies, automated intelligent legal agents, electronic legal institutions, computational models of legal texts. Intelligent computer-assisted instructional systems in law. Evaluation and auditing techniques for legal AI systems. Impact of specific AI systems on particular legal systems and institutions (an empirical contribution is expected, e.g. statistical inference or quasi-experimental study going beyond descriptive metrics) The journal is committed to its publications being valuable to the community. Submissions are expected to treat their subject with sufficient technical, legal, and empirical depth, as well as contributing novel methods, data, and/or insight to the collective discourse. Papers presenting straightforward applications of established methods to well-studied problems and data without sufficiently strong, novel aspects will be desk rejected. What is considered out of scopeAI and Law is not a traditional Law journal. Papers submitted to this journal are expected to have substantial contribut
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United States 12, Italy 7, United Kingdom 6, Netherlands 6, Japan 3 (52 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Artificial Intelligence in LawSocial Sciences23.3%
- Multi-Agent Systems and NegotiationComputer Science15.6%
- Logic, Reasoning, and KnowledgeComputer Science9.2%
- Topic ModelingComputer Science7.8%
- Natural Language Processing TechniquesComputer Science5.2%
- Semantic Web and OntologiesComputer Science5.1%
- Law, Economics, and Judicial SystemsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.1%
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AISocial Sciences4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Computer Science Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Computer Science Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 1 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexINSPECDBLPERIH PLUSCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, ACM Digital Library, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 5.1LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 5.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 12.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.91LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.96LetPub ·
- h-index
- 67OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 386OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.8OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 47.48%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 58LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 399,600Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 748 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 42 | 20 | 14 |
| 2025 | 60 | 32 | 238 |
| 2024 | 45 | 29 | 454 |
| 2023 | 41 | 22 | 806 |
| 2022 | 36 | 27 | 773 |
| 2021 | 25 | 11 | 980 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
238 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 169 days – 400 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 37 days (96 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 281 days
- Sample
- 46 articles with submission and acceptance dates (112 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,190 / EUR 2,590 / GBP 2,290 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Open calls for papers1, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted1
- editorialDouble-blind peer review This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. This means that the author will remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout p…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- AI use Generative AI Images
Please check Springer’s policy on generative AI images and make sure your work adheres to the principles described therein. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship principles
These guidelines describe authorship principles and good authorship practices to which prospective authors should adhere to. Authorship clarified The Journal and Publisher assume all authors agreed with the content and that all gave explicit consent to submit and that they obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out, before th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosures and declarations
All authors are requested to include information regarding sources of funding, financial or non-financial interests, study-specific approval by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans and/or animals, informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved animals (as appropriate). The decision whether such …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
All original research must include a data availability statement. This statement should explain how to access data supporting the results and analysis in the article, including links/citations to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Please see our full policy here. If it is not possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Compliance with Ethical Standards
To ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Open Choice articles do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. In opting for open access, the author(s) agree to publish the article under a Creative Commons license. Details of the OA licences offered to authors can be found on the individual journal website, in the journal's How to publish with us guide. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Artificial Intelligence and Law, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Double-blind peer review
This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. This means that the author will remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout peer review. It is the responsibility of the author to anonymize the manuscript and any associated materials. Author names, affiliations and any other potentially identifying information should be removed from the manuscript text and any accompanying files (such as …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical Trial Registration
The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of a clinical trial is "any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes". The WHO defines health interventions as “A health intervention is an act performed for, with or on behalf of a person or population whose purpose is to ass…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Country or region
- NETHERLANDS
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- 4 issues per year
- ISSN
- 0924-8463
- Electronic ISSN
- 1572-8382
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 34, Issue 2 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Artificial Intelligence and Law
What CAS zone is Artificial Intelligence and Law in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Artificial Intelligence and Law is in Zone 2 of Computer Science, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence / Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications / Law. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Computer Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Artificial Intelligence and Law?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 5.1; CiteScore 12.7, h-index 67.
How long does peer review take at Artificial Intelligence and Law?
Based on the dates recorded on 46 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 238 days (interquartile range 169–400 days). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Artificial Intelligence and Law?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–250 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: Author–date; Suggested reviewers: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Artificial Intelligence and Law based?
Of the 52 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (12), Italy (7) and United Kingdom (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Artificial Intelligence and Law?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Artificial Intelligence and Law is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, INSPEC, DBLP, ERIH PLUS and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Artificial Intelligence and Law open access, and what is the APC?
Artificial Intelligence and Law is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,190.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .