The International Journal of Human Rights
Last updated ISSN 1364-2987
The International Journal of Human Rights is published by Routledge in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The International Journal of Human Rights concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- International Law and Human Rights
- Human Rights and Development
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- European and International Law Studies
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- European Criminal Justice and Data Protection
- Environmental law and policy
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
Key facts
| Publisher | Routledge |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1364-2987, 1744-053X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,943 |
| Publishing since | 1997 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjhr20/current |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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