Comparative and International Environmental Law Research, Spring 2024: Journal Articles

To find articles that are published in journals from disciplines besides law, see:

• Environmental Law, International Env't Law, and EJ Research Guide: Articles
• Databases - Secondary Sources, this guide

Some good general starting points:

• All disciplines: Academic OneFile
• Environmental issues: Environment Complete
• Google Scholar is also helpful. If you find an article you want but you can't access it through Google Scholar, check our catalog for the name of the journal it comes from to see if we subscribe to it.

If you need to figure out how highly-ranked a particular journal is, here are some options:

Law Journal Rankings

W&L Law Journal Rankings
One of the definitive sources for law journal rankings. You can tweak the ratings a number of ways -- by subject, peer-review status, impact factor, number of citations per article, etc. Taking a moment to familiarize yourself with the different ranking criteria is HIGHLY recommended.

Other Disciplines

There are several sources of rankings of non-law journals. (Note that a specific journal will have a different rank on these different sources for a variety of reasons.) VLGS has access to a few of them:

All disciplines:

• CWTS Journal Indicators
• Google Scholar Rankings (choose a category from the dropdown at the top left, and then any subcategories of interest)
• Scopus Preview's CiteScore

Specific disciplines:

• Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List (business, economics, and related fields)
• Eigenfactor (scientific journals)
• Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) (mostly science journals)