Scimago Journal & Country Rank

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

Country

United States

Universities and research institutions in United States
Media Ranking in United States

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Law School

University of Pennsylvania in Scimago Institutions Rankings

H-Index

4

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

15212823, 19428561

Coverage

2019-2022

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Scope

The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (JCL) provides a forum for the academic advancement and interdisciplinary study of constitutional law. To that end, JCL cultivates innovative scholarship, promotes critical perspectives, and reinvents the traditional study of constitutional law. As part of its mission, JCL is committed to publishing five issues each year via both print and electronic mediums. The Journal also publishes JCL Online - JCL Online is part of the Journal’s larger strategic vision of fostering academic discourse on cutting-edge issues in constitutional law. Volume 14 established JCL Online, originally called Heightened Scrutiny, as the Journal’s online supplement, and Volume 15 was the first edition to be formally published as a companion to our print edition. Essays published on JCL Online in Volume 16 or earlier may be cited as U. Pa. J. Const. L. Height. Scrutiny. Thereafter, cite to U. Pa. J. Const. L. Online. JCL is one of only seventeen non-law review publications ranked in the top 55 legal journals nationwide for the most citations and impact. As a result of our position within the legal academy, JCL is fortunate to receive and publish the work of some of the leading scholars in the field, including the Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor, the Honorable Guido Calabresi, the Honorable Amy Coney Barrett, Richard Epstein, Laurence Tribe, Seth Kreimer, Kermit Roosevelt, Erwin Chemerinsky, William Ewald, Marci Hamilton, Barry Cushman, Sandy Levinson, Martin Redish, David Rudovsky, Mark Tushnet, the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, and Jerry Mashaw. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Law2023Q3
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20230.143
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
20196
202027
202125
202228
202322
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.333
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20210.394
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20220.379
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20230.256
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.333
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.394
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20220.379
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20230.238
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.333
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.394
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20220.346
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20230.264
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20190
Self Cites20200
Self Cites20211
Self Cites20220
Self Cites20230
Total Cites20190
Total Cites20202
Total Cites202113
Total Cites202222
Total Cites202319
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20190
External Cites per document20200.333
External Cites per document20210.364
External Cites per document20220.379
External Cites per document20230.238
Cites per document20190.000
Cites per document20200.333
Cites per document20210.394
Cites per document20220.379
Cites per document20230.238
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
201916.67
20200.00
20210.00
20220.00
20234.55
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20190
Non-citable documents20201
Non-citable documents20217
Non-citable documents202213
Non-citable documents202322
Citable documents20190
Citable documents20205
Citable documents202126
Citable documents202245
Citable documents202358
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20190
Uncited documents20204
Uncited documents202124
Uncited documents202240
Uncited documents202366
Cited documents20190
Cited documents20202
Cited documents20219
Cited documents202218
Cited documents202314
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