--- title: "Artificial Intelligence and Law: impact and top papers" description: "Artificial Intelligence and Law has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.23 and an h-index of 68 in OpenAlex, #26 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 60 papers, and its papers received 1,933 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-and-law markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-and-law.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Artificial Intelligence and Law has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.23 and an h-index of 68 in OpenAlex, #26 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 60 papers, and its papers received 1,933 citations. (as of 2026-11-04)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00 window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Artificial Intelligence and Law - 0 papers in the last 7 days - category: AI - publisher: Springer Science+Business Media - ISSN 0924-8463 - Journal website: https://www.springer.com/journal/10506 - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0924-8463 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S96609033 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of AI: [AI dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) · [AI journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) · [Top AI institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/ai.md) · [Top funders of AI research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/ai.md) · [Companies in AI research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/ai.md) · [Open access in AI journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/ai.md) · [Top AI conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/ai.md) ## Key findings - Artificial Intelligence and Law has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.23 and an h-index of 68 in OpenAlex, #26 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 60 papers, and its papers received 1,933 citations. - Artificial Intelligence and Law published 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #333 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: Southwest Jiaotong University (1), Sichuan Police College (1) and Fujian University of Technology (1). - Countries: China (2) and Macao (1). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Artificial Intelligence and Law published 2 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “auditability” (1), “automated legal reasoning” (1) and “judicial decision support” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 5.23 | | h-index | 68 | | i10-index | 389 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 752 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 19,498 | | Rank among tracked AI journals | [#26 of 41](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 46 | 1,611 | | 2025 | 60 | 1,933 | | 2024 | 45 | 1,529 | | 2023 | 40 | 1,849 | | 2022 | 37 | 1,437 | | 2021 | 24 | 1,287 | | 2020 | 21 | 1,018 | | 2019 | 18 | 774 | | 2018 | 22 | 639 | | 2017 | 25 | 640 | | 2016 | 15 | 454 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.springer.com/journal/10506 ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | auditability | 1 | | 2 | automated legal reasoning | 1 | | 3 | judicial decision support | 1 | | 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 1 | | 5 | legal reasoning | 1 | | 6 | query rewriting | 1 | | 7 | retrieval-augmented generation | 1 | | 8 | road traffic law | 1 | | 9 | structured reasoning | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-15 | [A structured reasoning framework for auditable traffic-crash liability adjudication with large language models](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-026-09542-5) | [Artificial Intelligence and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-and-law.md) | Feifan Dong, Jiageng Niu, Xinguo Jiang et al. | Southwest Jiaotong University; Fujian University of Technology; Sichuan Police College | | 2026-10-12 | [LegalMALR: multi-agent query understanding and LLM-based reranking for Chinese statute retrieval](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-026-09541-6) | [Artificial Intelligence and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-and-law.md) | Yunhan Li, Mingjie Xie, Gaoli Kang et al. | Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology; City University of Macau; Southern University of Science and Technology; … | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Artificial Intelligence and Law. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-and-law ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-journals-artificial-intelligence-and-law, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {Artificial Intelligence and Law}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-and-law}}, urldate = {2026-11-04}, note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0} } ``` License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).