Journal of International Dispute Settlement

Journal of International Dispute Settlement 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 International Arbitration and Investment Law, International Law and Human Rights and World Trade Organization Law, together about 55% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Since the 1980s, a radical development has taken place in international dispute settlement. The number of international courts, tribunals and other international dispute resolution mechanisms has increased dramatically. The number of international disputes resolved by such means has risen in even greater proportions. These disputes more and more frequently raise issues that combine private and public international law, effectively bringing back to light the deep-seated interactions that have always existed between these two traditional fields of academic study. The regulatory impact of certain branches of international dispute settlement – such as international arbitration – further create the need to take a step back and think about where we are going. The growth of the field of international dispute settlement in practice, the novelty and significance of the issues posed, and the originality of the academic angle from which such issues need to be addressed are the factors that triggered the launch of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. JIDS defines its mission according to these developments. It is primarily designed to encourage interest in issues of enduring importance and to highlight significant trends in the field of international dispute settlement. Heavyweight and reflective articles will find preference over news-driven works. In addition to strictly legal approaches, the journal’s purview encompasses studies inspired by legal sociology, legal philosophy, the history of law, law and political science, and law and economics. It covers all forms of international dispute settlement and focuses particularly on developments in private and public international law that carry commercial, economic and financial implications. The main subjects that are dealt with are international commercial and investment arbitration, WTO dispute resolution, diplomatic dispute settlement, the settlement of international political disputes over economic matters in the UN, as well as international negotiation and mediation. Particular attention is paid to questions that involve a combination of private and public international law. JIDS addresses procedural issues that arise in international dispute resolution procedures, such as provisional measures; the consensual character of jurisdiction; evidence; amicus curiae interventions; res judicata, lis pendens and double fora; the procedural influence of human rights; experts and witnesses; interpretation, revisio

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): LAW

Editor-in-chief Thomas SchultzPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 1, Italy 1, Switzerland 1, Türkiye 1, Singapore 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

1.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.2Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

1.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.55LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

35OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

109OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.64OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

7.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

44.55%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

57LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

111,975Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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Acceptance to publication

27 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISSN

2040-3593

Latest issue on the website

Volume 17, Issue 3 (September 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website