Journal profile
Kritisk Juss
ISSN 0804-7375 · eISSN 2387-4546 · Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget) · Norway
Kritisk Juss: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 11 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Kritisk Juss is published by Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Criminal Law and Policy, Legal Rights and Human Rights and Criminal Justice and Penology, together about 28.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Kritisk juss (Critical Law) was established in 1974, and publishes research articles, debate and commentary articles and book reviews in critical legal studies. The journal is interdisciplinary, and aims to provide an arena for not only legal scholarship, but also the investigation of problems that lie on the borders between legal studies and the social sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy and other relevant disciplines. Articles in Kritisk juss should take a critical stance. The journal is concerned with debates regarding legal and legal-political problems, social norms, the origins and effects of the law, legal institutions, legal studies as a discipline and law as a profession, and their relation to other disciplines. The journal is particularly interested in problems pertaining to the position in relation to the law of those who are disadvantaged and marginalised in society. The journal’s target groups are researchers in the fields of law, legal sociology, criminology, philosophy, social science and the humanities, lawyers, judges, teachers, students, political and administrative decision makers, the media and a broader reading public. The journal publishes articles in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and English. The journal is published by Scandinavian University Press on behalf of Rettspolitisk forening. Peer review All research articles that are considered relevant for publication in the journal are reviewed by at least one anonymous academic referee with no ties to the author. In addition, the article is reviewed by the journal’s editorial board and the final decision regarding publication of the article is made by the Editor-in-Chief. The journal practises ‘double blind’ peer review, whereby both the reviewer and the author remain anonymous to each other. Indexing The journal is covered by the following indexing and discovery services: Juridika Rettsinfo.no Norart Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ERIH PLUS SHERPA/RoMEO Google Scholar Primo Central Index (Ex Libris) Oria The Summon Service (Ex Libris) Ebsco Discovery Services WorldCat (OCLC) The journal is authorized as a publication channel on level 1 in NSD – Norwegian Centre for Research Data (for Norway and Sweden), in the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Authorization list for serials (Denmark), and in Publication Forum (Finland). All content in this journal is also exported to Portico, a preservation archive that safeguards perpetual access to e-journals, e-books,
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Henriette N. TøssebroPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Criminal Law and PolicySocial Sciences12.3%
- Legal Rights and Human RightsSocial Sciences8.3%
- Criminal Justice and PenologySocial Sciences7.6%
- European and International Law StudiesSocial Sciences6.5%
- Legal processes and jurisprudenceSocial Sciences6.4%
- Discrimination and Equality LawSocial Sciences6.2%
- Judicial and Constitutional StudiesSocial Sciences5.5%
- Administrative Law and GovernanceSocial Sciences5.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, OCLC, Portico
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
- h-index
- 5OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.21OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 513 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 11 | 17 |
| 2025 | 11 | 11 | 23 |
| 2024 | 12 | 12 | 18 |
| 2023 | 14 | 14 | 25 |
| 2022 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| 2021 | 16 | 16 | 22 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePeer review
- Peer review Peer review
All research articles that are considered relevant for publication in the journal are reviewed by at least one anonymous academic referee with no ties to the author. In addition, the article is reviewed by the journal’s editorial board and the final decision regarding publication of the article is made by the Editor-in-Chief. The journal practises ‘double blind’ peer review, whereby both the revie…
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
- Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget)
- Country or region
- Norway
- Language
- Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål
- ISSN
- 0804-7375
- Electronic ISSN
- 2387-4546
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Kritisk Juss
How long does peer review take at Kritisk Juss?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks. 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.
Which databases index Kritisk Juss?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Kritisk Juss is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Kritisk Juss open access, and what is the APC?
Kritisk Juss is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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: .