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European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
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ISSN 0928-9569Verify ISSN ↗1571-8174Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 490 / 1162 | 57th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 363 / 745 | 51st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 758 / 1530 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1993–2000), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice is Q2 in Law (rank 490 of 1162), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 363 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 758 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.358, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice is published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0928-9569 and its online ISSN is 1571-8174.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #532 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 25. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Germany (21%), Netherlands (18.4%) and Poland (12.9%).
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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