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Journal of Criminal Justice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0047-2352Verify ISSN ↗1873-6203Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,930 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 185 / 1162 | 84th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 377 / 1530 | 75th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 141 / 315 | 55th | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 129 / 258 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Criminal Justice is Q1 in Law (rank 185 of 1162), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 377 of 1530) and Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 141 of 315), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Criminal 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.913, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 110.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,930 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.
Journal of Criminal Justice is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0047-2352 and its online ISSN is 1873-6203.
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.
Journal of Criminal Justice has an h-index of 156 and a 2-year mean of 2.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Criminal Justice published 204 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (69%), United Kingdom (7.9%) and Netherlands (4.7%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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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