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Victims and Offenders

Routledge · United Kingdom · Est. 2006

ISSN1556-4886eISSN1556-4991

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.758

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.091

Total Worksi

975

Total Citationsi

15,552

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.43

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Victims and Offenders is an interdisciplinary and international journal that publishes research on victimization and offending. It covers topics in criminal justice, psychology, sociology, political science, economics, public health, and social work, including clinical psychology, mental health research, recidivism, coping, and association.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2006

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications975

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1556-4886 / 1556-4991

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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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?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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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

913

2019

1.6k

2020

952

2021

826

2022

510

2023

258

2024

109

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.

LawQ1

Applied PsychologyQ2

Health (social science)Q2

Pathology and Forensic MedicineQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Criminology & Penology

Scopus Categories

Health (social science)Applied PsychologyLawPathology and Forensic Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Criminal Justice and Corrections AnalysisCrime Patterns and InterventionsIntimate Partner and Family ViolencePsychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual OffendingSexual Assault and Victimization StudiesChild Abuse and TraumaHomelessness and Social IssuesSex work and related issuesCybercrime and Law Enforcement StudiesSexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Frequently asked questions about Victims and Offenders

Is Victims and Offenders a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Victims and Offenders: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, 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 Victims and Offenders?

Victims and Offenders 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 1.43.

Is Victims and Offenders indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Victims and Offenders is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.