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Deviant Behavior is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0163-9625Verify ISSN ↗1521-0456Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 136 / 1162 | 88th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 303 / 1530 | 80th | Q1 |
| Clinical Psychology | 107 / 314 | 66th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 118 / 315 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Deviant Behavior is Q1 in Law (rank 136 of 1162), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 303 of 1530) and Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 107 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Deviant Behavior 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.684, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 74.
Deviant Behavior is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0163-9625 and its online ISSN is 1521-0456.
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.
Deviant Behavior has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 2.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #105 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Deviant Behavior published 200 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (32.7%), Australia (6.6%) and United Kingdom (6.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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