Revija za Kriminalistiko in Kriminologijo

Revija za Kriminalistiko in Kriminologijo is published by Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, Police and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Policing Practices and Perceptions, Crime Patterns and Interventions and Sex work and related issues, together about 27.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The first issue of the journal was published in 1950 under the title of Criminal Investigation Service. In 1959, the journal was renamed into the Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology. It has been the leading Slovenian professional scientific journal covering the areas of criminology and criminal investigation and related scientific disciplines (criminal law, victimology, penology, etc.). The journal is published quarterly and is available in open access on the webpage of the Police. It is peer-reviewed and takes into account the COPE ethical standards of of good editorial policy practice . The current impact factors are 0.142 in SCOPUS and 0.4 in Web of Science. The five-year impact factor in Web of Science is 0.4. Publisher Ministry of the Interior and Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, Police Editors-in-Chief Damjan PETRIČ, M.A., Director General of the Police, General Police Directorate, Slovenia Gorazd Meško, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia Managing Editor Evgen Česnik, M.A., Criminal Police Directorate, General Police Directorate, Slovenia Members of the Editorial Board Marcelo Aebi, Ph.D., University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Matjaž Ambrož, Ph.D., Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Slovenia, Igor Areh, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Jasmina Arnež, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Aleš Bučar Ručman, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Katja Eman, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Vanja Ida Erčulj, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Charles B. Fields, Ph.D., Eastern Kentucky University, USA, Katja Filipčič, Ph.D., Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Danijela Frangež, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Helmut Hirtenlehner, Ph.D., Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, Matjaž Jager, Ph.D., Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Slovenia, Zoran Kanduč, Ph.D., Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, Slovenia, Mirjam Kline, Supreme State Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia, Branko Lobnikar, Ph.D., Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Darko Maver, Ph.D., Professor

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

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Impact

Impact factor

0.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

0.14Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

0.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

0.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.24LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

6OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

5OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

50%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

21LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, Police

Country or region

SLOVENIA

Language

Slovenian

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1959

ISSN

0034-690X

Electronic ISSN

3023-9923

Official links

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