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Crime Files is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2947-8340Verify ISSN ↗2947-8359Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 524 / 1186 | 55th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1348 / 1530 | 11th | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 304 / 315 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Applied Psychology | 253 / 258 | 2nd | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present (also 2009–2018, 2005–2007), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Crime Files is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 524 of 1186), Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1348 of 1530) and Q4 in Social Psychology (rank 304 of 315), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Crime Files is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Crime Files is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2947-8340 and its online ISSN is 2947-8359.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Crime Files has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #518 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Crime Files published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 56. 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.
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.
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