ICON-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

ICON-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW is published by Oxford University Press 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 Judicial and Constitutional Studies, European and International Law Studies and International Law and Human Rights, together about 42.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Published in association with the New York University School of Law, ICON is dedicated to advancing the study of international and comparative constitutional law in the broadest sense of the terms. ICON recognizes that the boundaries between the disciplines of “constitutional law”, “administrative law”, “international law” and their comparative variants have become increasingly porous. So too, there is no longer a distinct divide between law and political science. ICON scholarship reflects and values this intellectual cross-fertilization. ICON's interests include not only fields such as Administrative Law, Global Constitutional Law and Global Administrative Law, but also scholarship that reflects both legal reality and academic perception; scholarship which, in dealing with the challenges of public life and governance, combines elements from all of these fields with a good measure of political theory and social science. Featuring scholarly articles by international and constitutional legal scholars, judges, and people from related fields, such as economics, philosophy and political science, ICON offers critical analysis of current issues, debates and global trends that carry constitutional implications. Journal metrics Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 1.6 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 2.9 About metrics Abstracting and Indexing Services International Journal of Constitutional Law is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services: Centre of Documentation Catalogue CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Current Contents® /Social and Behavioral Sciences Google Scholar IBSS Infotrac International Political Science Abstracts Journal Citation Reports /Social Sciences Edition Legal Journals Index Legal Trac LexisNexis Peace Research Abstracts Scopus Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Social Sciences Citation Index® Social Scisearch® Disclaimer Statements of fact and opinion in the articles in International Journal Of Constitutional Law are those of the respective authors and contributors and not of the Journal, New York University School of Law, or Oxford University Press, unless otherwise expressly indicated. Neither Oxford University Press, New York University School of Law, nor the Journal make any representation, express or implied, in respect of the accuracy of the material in the Journal and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Readers should make their own evaluation as to the

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Research area (LetPub): LAW

Editor-in-chief Michel RosenfeldPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Italy 5, Taiwan, China 3, Germany 3, Spain 3, Australia 3 (37 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Impact

Impact factor

1.45LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.57LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.37LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

76OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

583OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.61OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

36.75%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

47LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISSN

1474-2640

Electronic ISSN

1474-2659

Society / sponsor

New York University School of Law

Latest issue on the website

Volume 24, Issue 2 (April 2026)

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• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
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