Policing & Society is widely acknowledged as the leading international academic journal specialising in the study of policing institutions and their practices. It is concerned with all aspects of how policing articulates and animates the social contexts in which it is located. This includes:
Social scientific investigations of police policy and activity
Legal and political analyses of police powers and governance
Management oriented research on aspects of police organisation
Space is also devoted to the relationship between what the police do and the policing decisions and functions of communities, private sector organisations and other state agencies.
As such, the journal is of vital interest to academics involved in the scholarly study of all of the varied facets of contemporary policing, as well as police and other practitioners involved in social regulation and control.
Policing & Society is renowned for its genuinely international scope and has correspondents in most countries where there is a tradition of academic inquiry into all aspects of policing. The journal is committed to rigorous policy debate and the very highest standards of scholarship.
Peer Review Policy: All articles published in Policing & Society are subject to editorial screening and anonymous peer review processes.
’Good policy and good practice requires good empirically grounded theory. Policing and Society recognizes this and has done much to facilitate the establishment a scholarly literature dedicated to promoting a nexus of theory, policy and practice on security governance. Its editors and reviewers have consistently ensured that its papers are of the highest quality. Policing and Society has established itself as the place to turn for theoretically focused commentary on the governance of security that is innovative and sound.’ - Clifford Shearing, Australian National University, Australia
’Policing and Society has become the premier scholarly journal on the police in the English-speaking world. It is unique in being comparative, meaning that it has sought to attract articles that deal with police matters from around the world. The best people in the large field of policing think of publishing in Policing and Society as their first option as opposed to generalist criminal justice journals.’ - David H. Bayley, School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany, USA
Journal metrics
Usage
412K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.0 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.4 (2023) 5 year IF
5.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.510 (2023) SNIP
0.820 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
21 days avg. from submission to first
decision
63 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
9 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
19% acceptance rate
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support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Editor-In-Chief: Jenny Fleming - University of Southampton, UK
Associate Editors: Jarrett Blaustein- School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University, Australia Sebastian Roché - Institute of Political Sciences, University of Grenoble, France
Editorial Board: Matthew Bacon- University of Sheffield, UK Professor Michelle Bonner- University of Victoria, Canada Ben Bradford- Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, University College London, UK Russell Brewer- University of Adelaide, Australia Tessa Diphoorn- Utrecht University, The Netherlands Adam Edwards- Cardiff University, UK Cory Haberman- University of Cincinnati, USA Stuart Lister- University of Leeds, UK Megan O’ Neill- University of Dundee, Scotland Louise Porter- Griffith University, Australia Elise Sargeant- Griffith University, Australia Marissa Silvestri- University of Kent, UK Pamela Ugwudike- University of Southampton, UK Ronald Van Steden- VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands James J. Willis- George Mason University, USA
Advisory Board: Jennifer Brown- London School of Economics, UK Adrian Cherney- University of Queensland, Australia Adam Crawford- University of Leeds, UK Jack R. Greene- Northeastern University, USA Pieter Leloup- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Jacques de Maillard- Center for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions, France Peter Manning- Northeastern University, USA Kristina Murphy- Griffith University, Australia Tim Newburn- London School of Economics, UK Tim Prenzler- University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Robert Reiner- London School of Economics, UK Ujjwal Kumar Singh- University of Delhi, India Maximo Sozzo- National University of Litoral, Argentina Clifford Stott- Keele University, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Policing & Society is abstracted and indexed in: CSA Political Science Abstracts; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; Criminal Justice Abstracts; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; OCLC; PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts and Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index.
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