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Crime Prevention and Community Safety is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 1460-3780Verify ISSN ↗1743-4629Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 188 / 1162 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 381 / 1530 | 75th | Q1 |
| Safety Research | 45 / 108 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.3.
Crime Prevention and Community Safety is Q1 in Law (rank 188 of 1162), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 381 of 1530) and Q2 in Safety Research (rank 45 of 108), by CiteScore 2025.
Crime Prevention and Community Safety is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.336, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Crime Prevention and Community Safety is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1460-3780 and its online ISSN is 1743-4629.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Crime Prevention and Community Safety has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Crime Prevention and Community Safety published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 38. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (26.2%), United States (15.2%) and Australia (12.7%).
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.
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