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Surveillance and Society

Surveillance Studies Network · United Kingdom · Est. 1969

ISSN1477-7487eISSN1477-7487

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.569

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.071

Total Worksi

1,153

Total Citationsi

22,343

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.98

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Urban Studies; Safety Research.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1969

Annual Volume~ 54 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,153

Publisher OrgSurveillance Studies Network

OA Since2001

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

📦 Long-term Preservation

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Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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9/11 · 82%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Surveillance Studies Network

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1477-7487 / 1477-7487

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Scholars Portal

❌

Plagiarism detection in place?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2.2k

2019

610

2020

569

2021

302

2022

255

2023

118

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Urban StudiesQ1

Safety ResearchQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Urban StudiesSafety Research

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Privacy, Security, and Data ProtectionGlobal Security and Public HealthGeographies of human-animal interactionsCrime, Deviance, and Social ControlIntelligence, Security, War StrategyPolicing Practices and PerceptionsMedia Studies and CommunicationSocial Media and PoliticsEthics and Social Impacts of AIMigration, Refugees, and Integration

Frequently asked questions about Surveillance and Society

Is Surveillance and Society a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Surveillance and Society: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Surveillance and Society?

Surveillance and Society is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.98.

Is Surveillance and Society indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Surveillance and Society is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Surveillance and Society?