Journal profile · LAW
Review of Law & Economics
ISSN 2194-6000 · eISSN 1555-5879 · Walter de Gruyter
Review of Law & Economics: CAS Zone 4 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,712; 35 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Review of Law & Economics is published by Walter de Gruyter and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems, Legal and Constitutional Studies and Legal principles and applications, together about 53.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law and Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): LAW
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Law, Economics, and Judicial SystemsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance30.5%
- Legal and Constitutional StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance15.3%
- Legal principles and applicationsSocial Sciences7.4%
- Merger and Competition AnalysisEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.6%
- Experimental Behavioral Economics StudiesSocial Sciences3.6%
- Judicial and Constitutional StudiesSocial Sciences3.4%
- Criminal Justice and PenologySocial Sciences3.3%
- Legal processes and jurisprudenceSocial Sciences3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 4 |
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.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | Q3 | 600/1162 | 48th |
| General Economics, Econometrics and Finance | Q3 | 189/289 | 34th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.21LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.64LetPub ·
- h-index
- 33OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 108OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.64OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 20%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 32.35%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 29LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 568 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14 | 11 | 190 |
| 2025 | 35 | 20 | 315 |
| 2024 | 20 | 7 | 255 |
| 2023 | 25 | 15 | 307 |
| 2022 | 15 | 7 | 303 |
| 2021 | 21 | 9 | 266 |
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 PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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".
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 | EUR 2,400 | — | — |
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- ISSN
- 2194-6000
- Electronic ISSN
- 1555-5879
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Review of Law & Economics
What CAS zone is Review of Law & Economics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Review of Law & Economics is in Zone 4 of Sociology, and in Zone 4 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.
Which databases index Review of Law & Economics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Review of Law & Economics is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Review of Law & Economics open access, and what is the APC?
Review of Law & Economics is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,712.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, 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: .