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Safer Communities

Emerald Publishing · United Kingdom · Est. 2008

ISSN1757-8043eISSN2042-8774

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.

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.305

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.376

Total Worksi

430

Total Citationsi

2,623

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Criminology & Penology; Law; Community and Home Care; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Safety Research.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2008

Annual Volume~ 28 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications430

Publisher OrgEmerald Publishing Limited

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Emerald Publishing

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1757-8043 / 2042-8774

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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

2019

148

2020

100

2021

2022

133

2023

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

Community and Home CareQ3

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ3

Safety ResearchQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Criminology & Penology

Scopus Categories

Community and Home CareLawSafety ResearchPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Crime Patterns and InterventionsCriminal Justice and Corrections AnalysisHomelessness and Social IssuesPolicing Practices and PerceptionsCrime, Illicit Activities, and GovernanceChild Abuse and TraumaCrime, Deviance, and Social ControlPsychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual OffendingIntimate Partner and Family ViolenceTerrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Frequently asked questions about Safer Communities

Is Safer Communities a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Safer Communities: 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 Safer Communities?

Safer Communities 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 1.07.

Is Safer Communities indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Safer Communities is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Safer Communities?