Journal profile · LAW
Griffith Law Review
ISSN 1038-3441 · eISSN 1839-4205 · Taylor & Francis
Griffith Law Review: CAS Zone 3 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.1 (journal website); JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 229 days to acceptance (54 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 42% (journal website); 22 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Griffith Law Review is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Law in Society and Culture, Legal Education and Practice Innovations and Legal principles and applications, together about 33.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Griffith Law Review: Law Theory Society is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the socio-legal, inter-disciplinary, critical and theoretical study of law. Our focus is international and we engage with worldwide issues and agendas. Griffith Law Review invites submissions with a focus on the social, cultural, theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of law, including international law. Griffith Law Review's Open Space section offers a forum for alternative pieces of scholarship, such as interviews, reports on conferences attended, creative works, and photo essays. Open Space aims to foster cutting edge non-traditional legal inquiry in keeping with the journal’s focus on interdisciplinary, socio-legal, theoretical and critical legal scholarship. Contributions to Open Space are reviewed by our Academic Editors. As part of its commitment to social and critical engagement in legal scholarship, Griffith Law Review also publishes book reviews. Book reviews, consonant with the journal’s aims and scope, are also reviewed by our Academic Editors. Griffith Law Review publishes four issues per volume/year: typically one/two themed (symposium) issues and two/three non-themed (general) issues. Peer review policy All Research Articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous double anonymised peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by at least two indepdendent experts. Where the Editors perceive a potential for a conflict of interest, including submissions from members of the Griffith Law School, a third anonymous referee will be engaged. All other submissions are editorially assessed.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): LAW
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Law in Society and CultureSocial Sciences18.8%
- Legal Education and Practice InnovationsSocial Sciences8.1%
- Legal principles and applicationsSocial Sciences6.7%
- Criminal Justice and Corrections AnalysisSocial Sciences5.1%
- Judicial and Constitutional StudiesSocial Sciences4.8%
- Indigenous Health, Education, and RightsSocial Sciences4.7%
- Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences4.1%
- International Law and Human RightsSocial Sciences4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ProQuest, EBSCOhost Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Current Abstracts, Education Source, Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (H.W. Wilson), Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Legal Source, Mainfile, OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson), Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, TOC Premier (Table of Contents), Gale Academic OneFile, Book Review Index, General OneFile, InfoTrac Custom, LegalTrac, ProQuest Central, ProQuest 5000, ProQuest 5000 International, ProQuest Research LibraryPublisher website
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 (publisher) 2025
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.29LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.29Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.77LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.77Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 31OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 148OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.27OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 21.21%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 32LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 145,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 716 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29 | 20 | 4 |
| 2025 | 22 | 14 | 20 |
| 2024 | 30 | 23 | 79 |
| 2023 | 20 | 16 | 96 |
| 2022 | 24 | 3 | 142 |
| 2021 | 29 | 11 | 274 |
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
229 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 159 days – 323 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 17 days (54 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 243 days
- Sample
- 54 articles with submission and acceptance dates (63 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 42%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 39 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 191 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted3
- book reviewsAs part of its commitment to social and critical engagement in legal scholarship, Griffith Law Review also publishes book reviews.Length not stated
- open spaceGriffith Law Review's Open Space section offers a forum for alternative pieces of scholarship, such as interviews, reports on conferences attended, creative wor…Length not stated
- research articlesAll Research Articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous double anonymised peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereein…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Griffith Law Review is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis 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 rea…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double anonymised peer review for Research Articles with at least two independent experts. Model summary
All Research Articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous double anonymised peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by at least two indepdendent experts.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1038-3441
- Electronic ISSN
- 1839-4205
- Society / sponsor
- Griffith University
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 35, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Griffith Law Review
What CAS zone is Griffith Law Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Griffith Law Review is in Zone 3 of Sociology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Law. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Griffith Law Review?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.7, h-index 31.
How long does peer review take at Griffith Law Review?
Based on the dates recorded on 54 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 229 days (interquartile range 159–323 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 42%. 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 JCR quartile is Griffith Law Review in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Sociology.
Which databases index Griffith Law Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Griffith Law Review is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Griffith Law Review open access, and what is the APC?
Griffith Law Review is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .