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Criminology and Public Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1538-6473Verify ISSN ↗1745-9133Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,350 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 31 / 1162 | 97th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 23 / 248 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
Criminology and Public Policy is Q1 in Law (rank 31 of 1162) and Q1 in Public Administration (rank 23 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Criminology and Public Policy 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.821, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,350 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.
Criminology and Public Policy is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1538-6473 and its online ISSN is 1745-9133.
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.
Criminology and Public Policy has an h-index of 98 and a 2-year mean of 4.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Criminology and Public Policy published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 86. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (87.9%), Netherlands (3%) and Canada (2.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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