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Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), DOAJ. Published by Western Society of Criminology.
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ISSN 2332-886XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Western Society of Criminology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 770 / 1530 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 770 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society 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 1.4, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.313, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society is published by Western Society of Criminology. Its ISSN is 2332-886X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #779 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 14. 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 36 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (94%), Portugal (2.8%) and Mexico (1.4%). 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. 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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