Organization:Journal of Law and Society

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Journal of Law and Society  
|Subject |Discipline}}Sociology of law
LanguageEnglish
Edited byPhilip Thomas
Publication details
Former name(s)
British Journal of Law and Society
History1974–present
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Cardiff School of Law and Politics
FrequencyQuarterly
0.714 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4J. Law Soc.
Indexing
ISSN0263-323X
LCCN83642269
OCLC no.750962784
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The Journal of Law and Society is a quarterly peer-reviewed law journal which publishes papers in the field of the sociology of law. It was established in 1974 as the British Journal of Law and Society, obtaining its current name in 1982. It is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Cardiff School of Law and Politics.[1] Since its founding, the journal's editor-in-chief has been Philip Thomas (Cardiff School of Law and Politics).[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 0.714, ranking it 101st out of 150 journals in the category "Law"[3] and 107th out of 147 journals in the category "sociology".[4]

References

  1. Christos, Boukalas; Lydia, Hayes; Aneurin, Thomas, Philip (2015-01-15). "The Journal of Law and Society at 40: history, work and prospects". The Journal of Law and Society: 390–405. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/73919/. 
  2. "Professor Philip Aneurin Thomas" (in en). https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/478921-thomas-philip-aneurin. 
  3. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Law". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018. 
  4. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018. 

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