Criminology & Penology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Criminology	9
2	Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency	7
3	Journal of Interpersonal Violence	5
-	Journal of Quantitative Criminology	5
5	Crime & Delinquency	4
-	British Journal of Criminology	4
-	Criminal Justice and Behavior	4
-	Journal of Criminal Justice	4
-	Justice Quarterly	4
10	Deviant Behavior	3
-	International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology	3
-	Prison Journal	3
13	Journal of Crime & Justice	2
-	Women & Criminal Justice	2
15	Monatsschrift fuer Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform	1
-	Violence and Victims	1
-	Deviance et Societe	1