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Citation metrics

In terms of academic citation metrics, the GLJ is consistently in the top quartile of journals in law and one of the highest ranking journals in European Law: 


Other forms of impact

As of November 2025, Altmetric records that the GLJ had 3,460 mentions in other sources between 2019 and 2025, such as news outlets, blogs, social media, podcasts, patents and grey literature. This includes 151 mentions in policy documents from organisations such as the World Economic Forum, the Publications Office of the European Union and the International Organization for Migration. 

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Usage

In 2024, GLJ articles were downloaded over 487,000 times on the Cambridge Core platform, of which 373,000 were examples of engaged usage (scrolls beyond the first HTML paragraph). There were over 10,000 downloads on other platforms including Proquest and EBSCO. The most viewed articles often receive over 5,000 downloads in a year. 

Publishing statistics

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Journal metrics
2-year Impact Factor 1.2
5-year Impact Factor 1.8
Eigenfactor 0.00222
Article Influence Score 0.704
CiteScore 3.1
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) 0.511
Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP) 1.515
Published articles
Total number of articles last year 71
Number of OA articles last year 71
Number of articles last year supported by subscription revenue 9