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British Journal of Criminology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0007-0955Verify ISSN ↗1464-3529Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$5,341 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 50 / 1162 | 95th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 42 / 692 | 94th | Q1 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 30 / 209 | 85th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 54 / 315 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1960–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
British Journal of Criminology is Q1 in Law (rank 50 of 1162), Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 42 of 692) and Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 30 of 209), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
British Journal of Criminology is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.241, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 127.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,341 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
British Journal of Criminology is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0007-0955 and its online ISSN is 1464-3529.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
British Journal of Criminology has an h-index of 154 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
British Journal of Criminology published 136 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (40.3%), United States (12.7%) and Slovenia (5.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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