About this journal
Aims and scope
Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice is now listed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index
The Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice explores the prejudice that currently affects our judicial system, our courts, our prisons, and our neighborhoods all around the world. This unique multidisciplinary journal is the only publication that focuses exclusively on crime, criminal justice, and ethnicity/race. Here you'll find insightful commentaries, position papers, and examinations of new and existing legislation by scholars and professionals committed to the study of ethnicity and criminal justice.
In addition, the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice presents the latest empirical findings, theoretical discussion, and research on social and criminal justice issues. It also provides scholarly thoughts and informed opinions on current and controversial issues, including racial profiling, race and death penalty, drug laws and minorities, and felony disenfranchisement laws and ethnicity.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two anonymous referees.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 32K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.599 (2023) SNIP
- 0.599 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 89 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 89 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 33% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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Journal metrics in brief
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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor
Dr. Janice Joseph - Criminal Justice Department, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Editorial Board
Dr. Dick Andzenge - Department of Criminal Justice, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
Dr. Corin Bailey - Crime and Social Inequality,University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
Dr. Robert Bing - Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
Dr. Eduardo Cerqueira Batitucci - Fundação João Pinheiro, Brazil
Dr. Dawn Beichner - Department of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University, IL,USA
Dr. Sarah Ben-David - Department of Criminology, Ariel University, Israel
Dr. Richard R. Bennett - Department of Justice Law and Society, American University, Washington, DC
Dr. Robert M. Bohm - University of Central Florida, Department of Criminal Justice, and Legal Studies, Orlando, FL
Dr. Lorenzo M. Boyd - Department of Criminal Justice, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
Dr. Karin Bruckmüller - Faculty of Law, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria
Dr. Liqun Cao - Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Ruth Chigwada-Bailey - Director of Criminology in Millenium, Stanmore, Middlesex; Greater London, UK
Dr. Charles Corley - School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Dr.Kimberly Dawn Dodson - Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX
Dr. Obi Ebbe - Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Geography, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
Dr. Camille Gibson - School of Juvenile Justice and Psychology, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX
Dr. Rosemary Gido - Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
Dr. Otmar Hagemann - Department of Social Work and Health, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Kiel, Germany
Maj. Gen. Dr. Mohammed Hassan Alsarra - International Cooperation Department NAUSS, College of Graduate Studies, Department of Police Sciences, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Dr. Zelma Henriques - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
Dr. Chadley James - Department of Criminology, California State University, Fresno, CA
Dr. Stacie A. Jergenson - Department of Criminal Justice, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN,USA
Dr. Matthew B. Johnson - John Jay College of Criminal Justice & Doctoral Faculty in Clinical Psychology, Garduate Center, CUNY, NY, USA
Dr. Marlyn Jones - Division of Criminal Justice, California State University, Sacramento, CA
Dr. Delores Jones Brown - Sociology and Criminology, Howard University, Washington, DC
Dr. Bitna Kim - Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Dr. Eric Lambert - School of Public and Environmental Affairs,Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
Dr. Zina McGee - Sociology Department, Hampton University, Hampton, VA
Dr. Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic - University of Belgrade, Beograd, Serbia
Dr. Wilson R. Palacios - School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell MA
Dr. Robert Peacock - Department of Criminology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Dr. Anthony A. Peguero - School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Dr. Hillary Potter - Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
Terry Roswell - Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Nurset Sahin- Criminal Justice Department, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Professor Sarah Simon- Somaliland Energy Regulation Commission, Hargeiza, Somaliland, Somalia
Dr. Beulah Shekhar - Criminology, National Forensic Sciences University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Yingyi Situ - Criminal Justice Department, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Dr. Mary K. Stohr - Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Dr. Dorothy Taylor - Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Dr. Wendell C. Wallace - Department of Behavioural Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tabago
Dr. Jason Williams - Justice Studies, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Dr. George Wilson - Criminal Justice, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC
Dr. Vernetta Young - Department of Sociology, Howard University, Washington, DC
Dr. Yuliya Zabyelina - International Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in:
• De Gruyter Saur
° Dietrich’s Index Philosophicus
° IBZ – Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes - und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
° Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes – und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
• EBSCOhost
° Academic Search Alumni Edition
° Academic Search Complete
° Academic Search Elite
° Academic Search Premier
° Academic Search Ultimate
° Current Abstracts
° MasterFILE Complete
° MasterFILE Premier
° Public Affairs Index
° Social Work Abstracts (Online)
° SocINDEX
° SocINDEX with Full Text
° TOC Premier
• Elsevier BV
° Scopus
• E-psyche
• National Library of Medicine
° PubMed
• OCLC
° Sociological Abstracts (Online), Core
• Ovid
° Social Work Abstracts (Online)
• ProQuest
° ASSIA (Online) (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts), Selective
° Criminal Justice Abstracts
° Criminal Justice Database
° Criminology Collection
° Professional ProQuest Central
° ProQuest 5000
° ProQuest Central
° Research Library
° Social Science Premium Collection
° Social Services Abstracts, Selective
° Sociology Collection
• Thomson Reuters
° Emerging Sources Citation Index
° Web of Science
Open access
Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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Association information
Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice is published on behalf of the Minorities and Women Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).
ACJS is an international association that promotes professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice. ACJS promotes criminal justice education, research, and policy analysis and provides a forum for sharing ideas related to issues in research, policy, education, and practice within the field.
Members of ACJS receive an online subscription to Justice Quarterly, Justice Evaluation Journal, and Journal of Criminal Justice Education and a discount on books from Routledge, CRC Press, and Taylor & Francis. Membership information including fees, benefits, and how to join are available on ACJS website.
Members of the Minorities and Women Section of ACJS receive access to the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.
Members of the Security and Crime Prevention Section of ACJS receive access to the Journal of Applied Security Research.
Members of the Corrections Section of ACJS receive a subscription to Corrections.
The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences publishes six journals:
Journal of Criminal Justice Education
Journal of Applied Security Research
Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice
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