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State Crime Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Pluto Journals.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2046-6056Verify ISSN ↗2046-6064Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pluto Journals
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 225 / 1162 | 80th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 226 / 432 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.
State Crime Journal is Q1 in Law (rank 225 of 1162) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 226 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
State Crime Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.386, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
State Crime Journal is published by Pluto Journals. Its print ISSN is 2046-6056 and its online ISSN is 2046-6064.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
State Crime Journal has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #451 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
State Crime Journal published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 36. 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 65 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (30%), United States (20.8%) and Australia (9.7%).
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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