Metadata for Law Journals in the Scopus/Scimago Database as of 2022

This file documents the raw data and manual codings (as of July 2022) of 46 journals listed in the Scimago Journal &amp; Country Rank for the search criteria "Subject category: Law", "Region/Country: Germany", and "Year: 2021". These data are the basis of the blog post <em>Hamann/Emmelheinz</em>, "Scopus/Scimago: Useless for Studying Legal Research! An Empirical Assessment of Misclassification Rates in a Popular Scientometric Data Source", Legal|Empirics blog 25 July 2022, DOI 10.25527/re.2022.02.