Ranking Nordic Criminologists by Impact and Prestige

Figures & data

Table 1. Journals in the sample.

Journal name	Abbreviation	Mean IF	Volumes	Years w. IF
Criminology	CRIM	3.837	56	10
Jour. of Res. in Crime and Delinquency	JRCD	2.495	55	10
Journal of Quantitative Criminology	JQC	2.619	34	10
Justice Quarterly	JQ	2.442	35	10
Journal of Criminal Justice	JCJ	2.502	45	10
Journal of Experimental Criminology	JEC	2.140	14	7
Crime and Delinquency	CD	1.513	64	10
Crime and Justice	CJ	2.250	47	10
Criminal Justice and Behavior	CJB	1.783	45	10
Criminology and Public Policy	CPP	1.238	17	6
British Journal of Criminology	BJC	1.743	58	10
European Journal of Criminology	EJC	1.271	15	8
Theoretical Criminology	TC	1.733	22	10
Criminology and Criminal Justice	CCJ	0.854	18	8
Euro. Jour. of Crim. Policy and Res.	EJCPR	0.740	24	8

Notes: (1) Since 2016, JCJ has used a system of ascribing journal volumes that does not follow the calendar year. The volume number in the table denotes the number of years published, i.e. from 1973.

Table 2. Sample descriptive statistics.

	Publications	Citations	Weighed	Weighed	Weighed
			Publications	Citations	IF
Mean	1.87	50.55	1.25	35.84	1.98
SD	2.27	84.85	1.70	70.05	2.98
Min	1	1	.07	.067	0
Max	16	631	10.83	489.67	22.22

Note: The minimum weighed IF value is zero because three journals had no IF at the time of the Nordic contribution.

Table 3. Number of articles and contributing Nordic authors by year and journal.

Year Journal	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	Total
CRIM	1/2		1/1	1/1		2/4	1/1	1/1	1/3	3/3	11/16
JRCD						1/2		1/2	1/2	1/1	4/7
JQC			1/1		1/2			2/2	2/2	1/1	7/8
JQ				1/1						1/2	2/3
JCJ			1/1		1/2	2/4			1/2	3/9	8/18
JEC		1/2			1/1	1/2		1/1	1/5		5/11
CD			1/1		1/1			1/1		3/4	6/7
CJ				12/20	1/1		2/2	1/3	1/1		17/27
CJB	3/4	2/2	2/6	1/4			2/6	1/2		1/2	12/26
CPP							1/2				1/2
BJC	2/2	1/1	1/1	1/2	3/6	3/9	7/20	10/15	3/11		31/67
EJC	3/4	3/4	8/17	5/9	9/21	7/15	6/14	3/9	6/8	6/9	56/110
TC	1/1			2/2	2/2	1/1	1/1		1/1	1/1	9/9
CCJ						2/2	1/1		2/5	2/6	7/14
EJCPR	1/1		1/1	1/1	1/1	5/11	1/2	3/5	2/5		15/27
Articles	11	7	16	24	20	24	22	24	21	22	191
Contributions	14	9	29	40	37	50	49	41	45	38	352

Table 4. Top 30 ranking using three composite scores.

Scholar	Nation	Publ./Cit.	CV	Composite	Composite	Composite
				score 1	score 2	score 3
Skardhamar	NOR	15/614	.06	12.42 (2)	12.13 (1)	13.23 (1)
Lappi-Seppälä	FIN	9/426	.16	7.56 (4)	9.28 (3)	9.45 (2)
Svensson	SWE	16/631	.20	13.06 (1)	11.68 (2)	9.25 (3)
Sandberg	NOR	11/393	.08	8.05 (3)	8.62 (4)	7.62 (4)
Aaltonen	FIN	10/206	.16	5.41 (6)	5.64 (6)	6.90 (5)
Kivivuori	FIN	14/223	.09	7.37 (5)	6.71 (5)	6.41 (6)
Aas	NOR	2/337	.23	3.43 (9)	4.74 (7)	4.51 (7)
Lyngstad	NOR	6/220	.07	3.81 (8)	3.46 (8)	3.81 (8)
Carlsson	SWE	3/219	.24	2.48 (12)	3.27 (9)	3.65 (9)
Moeller	DEN	4/59	.55	1.04 (18)	1.95 (13)	2.75 (10)
Barker	SWE	3/129	.40	1.42 (16)	2.36 (12)	2.72 (11)
Estrada	SWE	8/155	.32	3.93 (7)	3.24 (10)	2.25 (12)
Bäckman	SWE	6/87	.21	2.25 (14)	1.66 (15)	1.97 (13)
Nilsson	SWE	7/126	.23	3.15 (10)	2.51 (11)	1.96 (14)
Andersen, L.	DEN	4/48	.45	.91 (20)	1.29 (18)	1.92 (15)
Grundetjern	NOR	2/57	1.07	.13 (37)	.74 (24)	1.58 (16)
Gerell	SWE	3/28	.86	.23 (34)	.92 (23)	1.39 (17)
Ceccato	SWE	3/211	.40	2.39 (13)	1.60 (16)	1.35 (18)
Kääriäinen	FIN	2/127	.42	.96 (19)	1.74 (14)	1.32 (19)
Larsson, H.	SWE	2/110	.23	.76 (25)	1.05 (19)	1.02 (20)
Andersen, S.	DEN	3/65	.35	.67 (26)	.57 (26)	1.00 (21)
Aase	NOR	2/98	.31	.62 (28)	.65 (25)	.97 (22)
Tham	SWE	4/72	.32	1.19 (17)	1.48 (17)	.86 (23)
Sirén	FIN	5/159	.89	2.66 (11)	1.03 (20)	.82 (24)
Kolind	DEN	3/55	.39	.55 (29)	.93 (22)	.65 (25)
Von Hofer	SWE	3/62	.36	.63 (27)	.95 (21)	.59 (26)
Skillbrei	NOR	1/70	1.89	−.16 (50)	.34 (33)	.56 (27)
Häkkänen-Nyholm	FIN	1/78	1.40	−.06 (44)	.45 (28)	.51 (28)
Smith, P. K.	FIN	1/73	1.82	−.12 (47)	.38 (31)	.39 (29)
Monsbakken	NOR	2/66	.41	.24 (33)	.44 (30)	.39 (30)