Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Our screening does not flag Behavioral Sciences & the Law. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Per our venue index, Behavioral Sciences & the Law appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

Papers in Behavioral Sciences & the Law are cited about 2.0 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 108. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Behavioral Sciences & the Law is Q2 in 1 of its 4 subject categories and Q3 in the other 3. By category: Law: Q2, #327 of 1,141; Clinical Psychology: Q3, #182 of 322; Psychiatry and Mental Health: Q3, #378 of 605; Medicine (miscellaneous): Q3, #1,538 of 2,517. Its best category quartile is Q2. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Behavioral Sciences & the Law is cited about 2.0 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 108.

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Behavioral Sciences & the Law. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q2 in Law, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

Submission to acceptance for Behavioral Sciences & the Law takes about 178 days (median) — Estimated from our library (n=20 papers). Treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee: editorial times vary by article type, reviewer availability and season, and a self-reported figure is the journal's own. We do not hold a peer-review acceptance rate for Behavioral Sciences & the Law.