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Human Rights Review is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a scholarly forum in which human rights issues and their underlying empirical, theoretical and philosophical foundations are explored. The journal seeks to place human rights practices and policies within a theoretical perspective in order to link empirical research to broader human rights issues. Human Rights Review welcomes submissions from all academic areas in order to foster a wide-ranging dialogue on issues of concern to both the academic and the policy-making communities. The journal is receptive to submissions drawing from diverse methodologies and approaches including case studies, quantitative analysis, legal scholarship and philosophical discourse in order to provide a comprehensive discussion concerning human rights issues.

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Editor-in-Chief
  • George Andreopoulos
Impact factor
1.4 (2022)
5 year impact factor
1.5 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
23 days
Downloads
232,643 (2023)

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Electronic ISSN
1874-6306
Print ISSN
1524-8879
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