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Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property

academic journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ107388914 ↗
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The Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property (QMJIP) is a quarterly double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal, that publishes articles as well as analysis pieces and case reports about intellectual property matters. The journal has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing since April 2011, according to which "[i]t is the only IP journal with an Impact Factor included in the Social Sciences Citation Index".

QMJIP is overseen by Professor Johanna Gibson (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) and Lord Hoffmann (former judge of the House of Lords and Honorary Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London).

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