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Psychology, Crime and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1068-316XVerify ISSN ↗1477-2744Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 131 / 1162 | 88th | Q1 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 74 / 209 | 64th | Q2 |
| Psychology (all) | 88 / 220 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Psychology, Crime and Law is Q1 in Law (rank 131 of 1162), Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 74 of 209) and Q2 in Psychology (all) (rank 88 of 220), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychology, Crime and Law 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.668, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 75.
Psychology, Crime and Law is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1068-316X and its online ISSN is 1477-2744.
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.
Psychology, Crime and Law has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 1.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #176 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Psychology, Crime and Law published 102 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.9%), United Kingdom (15.2%) and Australia (12.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (3.6 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.
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