Journal of Law and Society

Academic journal

Journal of Law and SocietyDiscipline| Sociology of law

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Language| English
Edited by| Philip Thomas
Publication details

Former name(s)

British Journal of Law and Society

History| 1974–present
Publisher|

John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Cardiff School of Law and Politics

Frequency| Quarterly

Impact factor

| 0.714 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| J. Law Soc.
Indexing
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MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus * W&L
ISSN| 0263-323X

LCCN| 83642269
OCLC no.| 750962784
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access
* Online archive

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

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1. ^ Christos, Boukalas; Lydia, Hayes; Aneurin, Thomas, Philip (15 January 2015). "The Journal of Law and Society at 40: history, work and prospects". The Journal of Law and Society: 390–405.390-405&rft.date=2015-01-15&rft.aulast=Christos&rft.aufirst=Boukalas&rft.au=Lydia,+Hayes&rft.au=Aneurin,+Thomas,+Philip&rft_id=http://orca.cf.ac.uk/73919/&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Journal+of+Law+and+Society" class="Z3988">`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ^ "Professor Philip Aneurin Thomas". Cardiff University. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
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.

## External links

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* Official website

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