Scopus Impact Metrics

SCImago Journal & Country Rank

Editorial Board

Susan Brenner Chief Editorial Advisor

Philip N. Ndubueze Managing Editor

Michael Pittaro Associate Editor

Debarati Halder Associate Editor (Book Reviews)

Leepaxi Gupta Editorial Assistant

Advisory Board

  • Adam Bossler
    USA
  • Ahmed Patel
    Ireland
  • Ana I. Cerazo
    Spain
  • Barbara Vettori
    Italy
  • Bernard H. Levin
    France
  • Catherine D. Marcum
    USA
  • Chi Sung Laih
    Taiwan
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Open Access

The International Journal of Cyber Criminology (IJCC) believes that knowledge is open to all and it should be freely accessible. IJCC makes all content freely available to all researchers worldwide, ensuring maximum dissemination of content through its website. IJCC not only provides its contents free, but also does not charge its authors. IJCC also supports Create Change in promoting the concept of open access.

Journal Ranking / Impact (h-index / SCImago Journal Rank / Scopus)

  • IJCC is a highly ranked journal. IJCC is ranked in 99th Position (out of 685 criminology/law journals) in SCOPUS CITESCORE 2019 is 2.3.
  • IJCC utilizes Hirsch's h-index - and data source - Google Scholar - to assess journal impact. The Google Scholar Hirsch's h-index Journal impact is 40.
  • Other impact measures from SCOPUS are: CITESCORE 2019 - 2.3 (CiteScore - CiteScore metrics calculate the citations from all documents in year one to all documents published in the prior three years for a Journal). SJR 2019 - 0.299 (SJR - SCImago Journal Rank is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same). The SJR indicator measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is. Cites per Doc. (2y) measures the scientific impact of an average article published in the journal, it is computed using the same formula that Journal Impact factorT (Thomson Reuters). SNIP 2019 - 0.717 (SNIP - Source Normalized Impact per Paper measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field).

JOURNAL METRICS

  • The SCOPUS CiteScore of the IJCC has improved from 0.45 (2013) to 2.3 (2019).
  • SCOPUS JOURNAL RANK (CiteScore Rank) of IJCC has improved from 202nd position (2013) to 99th position (2019) (out of 685 Law/Criminology Journals).
  • The Journal has improved from Quartile 3 (49 percentile) in 2013 to Quartile 1 (85 percentile) in the Scopus Journal Rank 2019. (Best Quartile)
  • The Journal has improved from Quartile 3 in 2013 to Quartile 1 in the SCImago Journal Rank 2020. (Best Quartile)

Benefits of publishing in IJCC

  • All content is free.
  • $3000 publication or article processing (APC) charges. Authors need to pay for the publication of their articles.
  • Publishing in a ranked journal indexed by the prestigious Scopus.
  • Fast submission and review (double blind) process.
  • Research reaches the community in a timely manner.
  • Guaranteed quality - peer review managed by top international reviewers.
  • High readership visibility.