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Kriminologie is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), DOAJ. Published by Universitat zu Koln.
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ISSN 2698-6779Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universitat zu Koln
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 814 / 1434 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Law | 890 / 1162 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 602 / 744 | 19th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1263 / 1530 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Kriminologie is Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 814 of 1434), Q4 in Law (rank 890 of 1162) and Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 602 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Kriminologie 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 0.4, quartile Q3, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.203, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Kriminologie is published by Universitat zu Koln. Its ISSN is 2698-6779.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Kriminologie has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,172 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
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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