Human Rights Quarterly

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Prof. Bert B. Lockwood  
Human Rights Quarterly 
Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights 
College of Law  
2925 Campus Green Dr 
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0040

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Human Rights Quarterly(HRQ) is a multidisciplinary journal. The typical article is around 10,000 words.  Decisions on acceptance are made by the faculty Editor-in-Chief and faculty Deputy Editor. Approximately 25 percent of the articles will be sent out for blind review to other experts for advice. The actual editing of the articles is done by our law student staff of approximately 70 students.  We strive for every article to be able to be understood by the literate reader.  Every footnote is checked for form and accuracy. The staff works closely with the authors. It is our firm belief that the key to the success of HRQ is this hybrid editorial approach, and our authors are grateful for the care and attention their manuscripts receive.

Editor-in-Chief

Bert B. Lockwood
Professor and Director
Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
College of Law, University of Cincinnati

Deputy Editor

Jacob Katz Cogan
Professor
College of Law, University of Cincinnati

Program Manager

Pamela Wissman

Managing Editor

Lauren Schwab

Senior Articles Editor with Portfolio

Kate Brewer
Shannon Conroy

Senior Articles Editors

Julia Bley
Justin Boyle
Jake Goodwin
Braden Vicars
Audrey Woodward

Article Editors

Avery Anderson
Averi Aya-ay
Kiera Burns
Darcy Fahey
Isabella Fantozzi
Maya Huffman
Paola Loera
Callie Mobley
Evan Plummer
Caroline Waller
Emma Wozniak

Cite Checkers

Kennedy Aikey
Hailey Bishop
Robby Belt
Emily Blane
Katie Bunch
Claire Courter
Erin Egan
Laura Cabrera Espinal
Jack Frischen
Claire Green
Kyle Greene
Carrie Hoke
Jocy Holtsberry
Hannah Jawed
Julianna Kapovic
Amanda Kittel
Will Lanier
Julia Lefevers
Ethan Lilly
Sophie Lindley
Gabrielle Long
Leah Luckett
Jake Lynn
Abriana Malfatti
Cameron McDonald
Molly McInnis
Virgil Michael
Abraham Nassif
Melissa Navarra
Mya Smith
Allison Niemeier
De'Onna Nixson
Julia Parrey
Ema Rennie
Olivia Riggs
Stephanie Robbins
Trey Rutledge
Sydney Scaggs
Isaac Stachler
Sarah Tessler
Clotilde Tomasini
Abbey Wilson
Andrew Wong
Zhipeng Zhu

Book Review Editor

Jake Goodwin

Advisory Editorial Board

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na´im, Emory Law School
Richard Pierre Claude, Founding Editor, Human Rights Quarterly
Rebecca Cook, University of Toronto
Radhika Coomaraswamy, United Nations
Yoram Dinstein, Editor, Israel Human Rights Yearbook
Tom J. Farer, Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver
Jose Ramos Horta, Nobel Peace Price
Adnan Buyung Nasution, Founder and Director, Legal Aid Institute of Indonesia
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Price and Coordinator General del Servicio Paz y Justicia América Latina
Theo van Boven, Former Director, United Nations Centre on Human Rights

Editorial Review Board

Reza Afshari
Payam Akhavan
Philip Alston
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Hugo Adam Bedau
Lawrence Ward Beer
Louis Bickford
Clifford Bob
Eva Brems
Reed Brody
Chris Bryant
Alison Brysk
Thomas Buergenthal
William J. Butler
Sonia Cardenas
Charli Carpenter
Gordon A. Christenson
Jacob Katz Cogan
Rebecca Cook
Margaret E. Crahan
Norman Daniels
Michael Davis
Unity Dow
Haley Dushinsky
Mark Ensalaco
Patricia Weiss Fagen
Tom J. Farer
A. Belden Fields
David P. Forsythe
Mark Gibney
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
Richard Greenfield
Iain Guest
Hurst Hannum
Dina Francesca Haynes
William A. Hazelton
Alice H. Henkin
Charles P. Henry
Paul Hoffman
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Paul Hunt
Peter Juviler
Linda Camp Keith
Barbara Keys
Morten Kjaerum
Harold Hongju Koh
Donald P. Kommers
Todd Landman
Paul Gordon Lauren
John A. Lent
Natan Lerner
Matthew Lippman
George A. Lopez
J. Paul Martin
Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Gay J. McDougall
Cecilia Medina
Theodor Meron
Herman Montealegre
Clovis C. Morrisson, Jr.
Johannes Morsink
A. Glenn Mower, Jr.
Makau Mutua
Ved P. Nanda
Andrew Nathan
Paula R. Newberg
James W. Nickel
Jay Ovsiovitch
Zoran Pajic
Han S. Park
Champa Patel
Teresa Phelps
Adamantia Pollis
Patricia L. Rengel
Alison Dundes Renteln
Nigel S. Rodley
Amy Ross
Kenneth Roth
Abdul Aziz Said
Jeremy Sarkin
Lars Schoultz
James D. Seymour
Dinah L. Shelton
Henry Shue
Michael Stein
Henry J. Steiner
Eric Stover
Kimberly Theidon
Howard Tolley
David Weissbrodt
Claude E. Welch
Burns H. Weston
Richard A. Wilson
Richard Wilson
Laurie S. Wiseberg
Alicia Ely Yamin
Amy Young

The Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

Director
Bert B. Lockwood

Program Manager
Pamela Wissman

Advisory Board
William J. Butler, Esq.
Philip Alston
Abdullahi An-Na'im
Gordon A. Christenson
Rebecca J. Cook
Drew S. Days, III
Norman Dorsen
Judge Unity Dow
Tom J. Farer
Cees Flinterman
Thomas M. Franck
Judge Nathaniel R. Jones
Gay McDougall
Juan Mendez
W. Michael Reisman
Mark L. Schneider
Joseph P. Tomain

* Denotes Arthur Russell Morgan Fellows

Send books for review to:

Prof. Bert B. Lockwood 
Human Rights Quarterly
Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
College of Law 
2925 Campus Green Dr
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0040

bert.lockwood@uc.edu

Please send book review copies to the contact above. Review copies received by the Johns Hopkins University Press office will be discarded.

Abstracting & Indexing Databases

• Association for Asian Studies
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies (Online), 1991-1998
• Clarivate Analytics
  • Current Contents
  • Web of Science
• De Gruyter Saur
  • Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
  • IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
  • Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
• EBSCOhost
  • Academic Search Alumni Edition, 1/1/1992-
  • Academic Search Complete, 1/1/1992-
  • Academic Search Elite, 1/1/1992-
  • Academic Search Premier, 1/1/1992-
  • American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (Online), 1992-, dropped
  • ATLA Religion Database (American Theological Library Association), 1983-2003, dropped
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  • Current Abstracts, 1/1/2000-
  • Gender Studies Database, 1/1/1981-
  • Historical Abstracts (Online), 2/1/1981-
  • International Political Science Abstracts Database
  • Legal Source, 5/1/1981-
  • MasterFILE Complete, 5/1/1981-
  • MasterFILE Elite, 1/1/1992-
  • MasterFILE Premier, 1/1/1992-
  • Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies, 1/1/1981-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), 2/1/1987-
  • Peace Research Abstracts, 5/1/1981-
  • Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 5/1/1981-
  • Political Science Complete, 5/1/1981-
  • Public Affairs Index, 5/1/1981-
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  • Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson), 2/1/1987-
  • SocINDEX, 1/1/1979-12/31/1980
  • SocINDEX with Full Text, 1/1/1979-12/31/1980
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• Elsevier BV
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• H.W. Wilson
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• National Library of Medicine
  • PubMed, coverage dropped
• OCLC
  • ArticleFirst, vol.13, no.1-vol.33, no.4, 2011
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  • Environment Abstracts, Selective
  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, Selective
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  • Military Database, 02/01/1989-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • PAIS Index (Public Affairs Information Service), Selective
  • Periodicals Index Online
  • Political Science Database, 02/01/1989-
  • Politics Collection, 11/1/2015-
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  • Social Science Premium Collection, 02/01/1989-
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Abstracting & Indexing Sources

• Abstracts of Book Reviews in Current Legal Periodicals   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Business Publications Index and Abstracts   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Family Index   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Religion Index One: Periodicals   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Social Planning - Policy & Development Abstracts   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Electronic Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East   (Researched / Unresolved)  (Print)

Source: Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory.

0.8 (2024)
1.1 (Five-Year Impact Factor)
0.00061 (Eigenfactor™ Score)

Rank in Category (by Journal Impact Factor):
214 of 322 journals, in “Political Science”
45 of 68 journals, in “Social Issues”

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