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Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 1999

ISSN1743-4629

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.336

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.717

Total Worksi

684

Total Citationsi

10,736

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.15

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Criminology & Penology; Law; Sociology and Political Science; Safety Research.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1999

Annual Volume~ 19 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications684

Publisher OrgPalgrave Macmillan

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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?

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1743-4629

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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

397

2019

152

2020

111

2021

234

2022

2023

111

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.

LawQ2

Sociology and Political ScienceQ2

Safety ResearchQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Criminology & Penology

Scopus Categories

LawSociology and Political ScienceSafety Research

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Crime Patterns and InterventionsCrime, Illicit Activities, and GovernanceCriminal Justice and Corrections AnalysisPolicing Practices and PerceptionsHomelessness and Social IssuesCrime, Deviance, and Social ControlWildlife Conservation and Criminology AnalysesCybercrime and Law Enforcement StudiesSex work and related issuesIntimate Partner and Family Violence

Frequently asked questions about Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Is Crime Prevention and Community Safety a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Crime Prevention and Community Safety: 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 Crime Prevention and Community Safety?

Crime Prevention and Community Safety 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 3.15.

Is Crime Prevention and Community Safety indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Crime Prevention and Community Safety is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Crime Prevention and Community Safety?