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Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 2199-4641Verify ISSN ↗2199-465XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 240 / 1162 | 79th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 142 / 258 | 45th | Q3 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 35 / 61 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology is Q1 in Law (rank 240 of 1162), Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 142 of 258) and Q3 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 35 of 61), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.544, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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 Developmental and Life-Course Criminology is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its print ISSN is 2199-4641 and its online ISSN is 2199-465X.
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 Developmental and Life-Course Criminology has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 1.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #271 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 33. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (54.2%), Netherlands (13.4%) and United Kingdom (10.3%). 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. 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.
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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