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Justice Quarterly
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Justice Quarterly

0741-8825

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjqy20

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Law 1 16 30 13
Social Sciences and Humanities 115 41 69 19

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 84
Documents by Best Scientists*: 118
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 16
SCIMAGO H-index: 110
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.28
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Justice Quarterly?

Justice Quarterly is organized to address concerns in the fields of Criminology, Social psychology, Law, Criminal justice and Prison. Topics in Criminology were tackled in line with various other fields like Economic Justice and Race (biology). The journal explores research in Race (biology) and the adjacent study of Ethnic group.

The studies in Social psychology featured incorporate elements of Developmental psychology, Juvenile delinquency, Test (assessment) and Perception. It links adjacent topics like Juvenile delinquency with Juvenile. The Criminal justice study tackling the subject of Theory of criminal justice is the focus of Justice Quarterly.

  • Criminology (47.05%)
  • Social psychology (29.91%)
  • Law (11.52%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • General deterrent effects of police patrol in crime “hot spots”: A randomized, controlled trial (728 citations)
  • Feminism and criminology (625 citations)
  • Social support as an organizing concept for criminology: Presidential address to the academy of criminal justice sciences (504 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Justice Quarterly:

The published papers are mainly concerned with subjects like Social psychology, Criminology, Race (biology), Developmental psychology and Juvenile delinquency. The featured Social psychology studies in the most cited articles mainly concentrate on Perception but also cover areas of interest in Public relations. The most cited publications explore issues in Criminology which can be linked to other research areas like Economic Justice, Affect (psychology) and Politics.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Criminology, Prison, Procedural justice, Developmental psychology and Social psychology. The Criminology study presented in the journal encompasses related topics like Criminal justice and also examines its connection to subjects such as Homicide. Topics in Prison explored in Justice Quarterly were investigated in conjunction with research in Needs assessment and Mandate.

It explores topics in Procedural justice which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Test (assessment), Sample (statistics) and Order (business). While the primary focus in it is Developmental psychology, it also dissects topics surrounding Socioeconomic status and Etiology, Disadvantaged and Face (sociological concept) as a whole. It addresses concerns in Social psychology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Structural equation modeling and Behavioral economics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The Cannabis Effect on Crime: Time-Series Analysis of Crime in Colorado and Washington State (14 citations)
  • Socioeconomic Barriers to Child Contact with Incarcerated Parents (9 citations)
  • Network spillovers and neighborhood crime: A computational statistics analysis of employment-based networks of neighborhoods. (8 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Justice Quarterly (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Francis T. Cullen (29 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Alex R. Piquero (26 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Scott H. Decker (19 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Daniel P. Mears (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Cassia Spohn (14 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Justice Quarterly (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Cincinnati (70 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Pennsylvania State University (48 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University at Albany, SUNY (44 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Maryland, College Park (44 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Florida State University (43 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 7.04% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 48.48% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.61% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.70% of all publications and 21.21% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Exploring the Relationship between Prison Social Climate and Reoffending

    Katherine M. Auty;Alison Liebling

    (2020)
    174 Citations
  • Police Officers as Warriors or Guardians: Empirical Reality or Intriguing Rhetoric?

    Kyle McLean;Scott E. Wolfe;Jeff Rojek;Geoffrey P. Alpert

    (2020)
    165 Citations
  • Red States and Black Lives: Applying the Racial Threat Hypothesis to the Black Lives Matter Movement

    Alexander H. Updegrove;Maisha N. Cooper;Erin A. Orrick;Alex R. Piquero

    (2020)
    82 Citations
  • Body Worn Cameras, Procedural Justice, and Police Legitimacy: A Controlled Experimental Evaluation of Traffic Stops

    Mustafa Demir;Robert Apel;Anthony A. Braga;Rod K. Brunson

    (2020)
    72 Citations
  • How Powerful is the Evidence in Criminology? On Whether We Should Fear a Coming Crisis of Confidence

    J. C. Barnes;Michael F. TenEyck;Travis C. Pratt;Francis T. Cullen

    (2020)
    55 Citations
  • The Use of Restrictive Housing on Gang and Non-Gang Affiliated Inmates in U.S. Prisons: Findings from a National Survey of Correctional Agencies

    David C. Pyrooz;Meghan M. Mitchell

    (2020)
    46 Citations
  • Revisiting the Effect of Visitation on Recidivism

    Joshua C. Cochran;J. C. Barnes;Daniel P. Mears;William D. Bales

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Drugs, Crime, Space, and Time: A Spatiotemporal Examination of Drug Activity and Crime Rates

    Christopher Contreras;John R. Hipp

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Police Officers’ Self-Assessed Legitimacy: A Theoretical Extension and Empirical Test

    Jacinta M. Gau;Eugene A. Paoline

    (2021)
    35 Citations

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