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SpringerBriefs in Criminology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2192-8533Verify ISSN ↗2192-8541Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 1047 / 1162 | 9th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1409 / 1530 | 7th | Q4 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 267 / 283 | 5th | Q4 |
| Health (social science) | 374 / 387 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 309 / 315 | 2nd | 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 2012–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
SpringerBriefs in Criminology is Q4 in Law (rank 1047 of 1162), Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1409 of 1530) and Q4 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 267 of 283), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
SpringerBriefs in Criminology 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 0.2, quartile Q4, 9th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
SpringerBriefs in Criminology is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2192-8533 and its online ISSN is 2192-8541.
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.
SpringerBriefs in Criminology has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #682 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
SpringerBriefs in Criminology published 108 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.
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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