Social & Legal Studies

Social & Legal Studies

Discipline	Sociology
Language	English
Edited by	Carl F. Stychin, David Campbell, Marie B. Fox, Vanessa Munro
Publication details
History	1992-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	1.119 (2018)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Soc. Leg. Stud.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
CODEN	SLSTEK
ISSN	0964-6639  (print) 1461-7390  (web)
LCCN	94644509
OCLC  no.	25566142
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Social & Legal Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers feminist, post-colonial, and socialist economic perspectives to the study of law and criminology. The editors-in-chief are Carl Stychin (University of London), David Campbell (University of Lancaster), Vanessa Munro (University of Warwick), and Marie Fox (University of Liverpool). It was established in 1992 and is published by SAGE Publications.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic Search Premier, the Legal Journals Index, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. ^[1] According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2018 impact factor is 1.119, ranking it 39th out of 65 journals in the category "Criminology and Penology", ^[2] 66 out of 148 journals in the category "Law", ^[3] and 61st out of 104 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary". ^[4]

References

1. "Social & Legal Studies". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals . University of Barcelona . Retrieved 2025-11-21.
2. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Criminology and Penology". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2019.
3. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Law". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2019.
4. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2019.

External links

• Official website