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Violence and Victims is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SSCI. Published by Springer Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0886-6708Verify ISSN ↗1945-7073Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 507 / 1162 | 56th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 258 / 387 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 143 / 209 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Violence and Victims is Q2 in Law (rank 507 of 1162), Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 258 of 387) and Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 143 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
Violence and Victims 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.361, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 104.
Violence and Victims is published by Springer Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 0886-6708 and its online ISSN is 1945-7073.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Violence and Victims has an h-index of 139 and a 2-year mean of 0.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #432 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Violence and Victims published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 84. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (70.3%), Canada (5.8%) and United Kingdom (2.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
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