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Journal of Gang Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by National Gang Crime Research Center.
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ISSN 1079-3062Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Gang Crime Research Center
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 432 / 692 | 37th | Q3 |
| Law | 976 / 1162 | 16th | Q4 |
| Gender Studies | 199 / 233 | 14th | Q4 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 641 / 744 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of Gang Research is Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 432 of 692), Q4 in Law (rank 976 of 1162) and Q4 in Gender Studies (rank 199 of 233), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Gang Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3, 37th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.129, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Journal of Gang Research is published by National Gang Crime Research Center. Its ISSN is 1079-3062.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Gang Research has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #531 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of Gang Research published 1 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2008 with 12. 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.
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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