About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Utrecht Journal of International and European Law is a diamond open access, double-blind peer-reviewed, student-led law journal affiliated with Utrecht University.

Founded in 1981, the Journal aims to contribute to legal scholarship on international and European law by promoting these fields' progressive development and providing an international forum for interaction between academia, practitioners and students.

On a yearly basis, the Utrecht Journal of International and European Law publishes one or two general issues. The Journal is occasionally publishing additional special issues devoted to a specific theme chosen by the Board of Editors.

The Journal of fully managed and edited by students. Following a review by the Board of Editors, an article if referred to a double-blind peer-review by experts in the relevant field.

The Journal was founded in 1981 as Merkourios within Urios, the study association for international and European law of Utrecht University. Since then, the Journal has expanded its readership significantly . In 2013, the Journal’s name was changed to its current form. Today, the Utrecht Journal of International and European Law is distributed all over the world via www.utrechtjournal.org and through online databases such as HeinOnline and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. In line with the diamond open-access model, the Journal does not impose any article processing fees. Authors of articles published in Utrecht Journal of International and European Law remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons license agreement.

The journal encourages authors to make their research data openly available via an appropriate repository to aid replication and/or use of research material. For a list of generic and subject specific repositories that meet our peer review criteria, see here.


Evaluation and Impact

  • Journal Citation Indicator: 0.38 – 155/169 (2024)
  • Journal Impact Factor: 0.2 – 157/165 (2024)
  • Scopus CiteScore: 2.1 – 298/1105 (2024)
  • Scimago H-index: 6 (2024)
  • Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.125 (2024)


Indexing and Discoverability

The journal is indexed by the following services:

Additionally, the journal is included in Jisc's Open Policy Finder  and all article metadata and references are deposited with Crossref.

If the journal is not indexed by your preferred service, please contact us or alternatively by making an indexing request directly with the service.

Archiving

To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal also utilises CLOCKSS, and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.

In addition, the journal is available for harvesting via OAI-PMH. 

Sponsors

Partners

Journal History

This journal was previously published as Merkourios: Utrecht Journal of International and European Law (ISSN: 0927-460x, Vol 26 - 29). Merkourios was founded in 1981. As the student magazine, which it was at that time, Merkourios contained summaries of study-trips, conferences and other issues related to Urios, the study association for International and European Law at Utrecht University. Over the following years, until 2009, Merkourios was published 70 times. During these years Merkourios evolved from a student magazine into a formal law journal run by members of Urios. In 2009, the evolution into a professional law journal was finalised when a group of referees were introduced to peer-review the articles published in Merkourios. From Vol. 30 (2014) the journal is published under the title Utrecht Journal of International and European Law.