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International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0192-4036Verify ISSN ↗2157-6475Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 200 / 1162 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 396 / 1530 | 74th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 148 / 315 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 1977–1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.2.
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice is Q1 in Law (rank 200 of 1162), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 396 of 1530) and Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 148 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Comparative and Applied 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.497, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0192-4036 and its online ISSN is 2157-6475.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #345 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 36. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (41.2%), Canada (11.7%) and United Kingdom (9.6%).
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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