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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0957-9664Verify ISSN ↗1471-2857Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$3,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 53 / 118 | 55th | Q2 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 115 / 209 | 45th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 348 / 580 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health is Q2 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 53 of 118), Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 115 of 209) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 348 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.525, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 67.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,570 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.
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0957-9664 and its online ISSN is 1471-2857.
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.
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 115 Scopus journals in Psychology (miscellaneous).
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 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.
In its latest 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (35.5%), United States (22%) and Canada (3.7%).
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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