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International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1756-0616Verify ISSN ↗1876-763XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,380 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 210 / 1162 | 81st | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 177 / 745 | 76th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 407 / 1530 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice is Q1 in Law (rank 210 of 1162), Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 177 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 407 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.290, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,380 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.
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice is published by Academic Press. Its print ISSN is 1756-0616 and its online ISSN is 1876-763X.
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.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #131 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice published 77 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.2%), China (15.4%) and United States (13%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (2.8 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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