#11604. Commentary to “How international are the top ten international journals of criminology and criminal justice?” by Hary Hugo Fruhling

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Abstract:
The article “How international are the top ten international journals of criminology and criminal justice?” makes a significant contribution to the analysis of the production and dissemination of contemporary knowledge as well as the flow of ideas incorporated into public policy and debate in different countries. This study is based on a selection of criminology and criminal law journals that call themselves international and are high-impact according to the SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) on Law, which ranks each journal’s impact based on the number of times their articles are cited. The authors show that high-impact journals on criminology or criminal law that call themselves international are, in fact, not very international. As a result of the hegemony of English in academic production and exchange, most cited articles have been written in English and are published in English-language journals. In practice, the SCImago Ranking absolutely marginalizes law journals from Germany, France, Italy, and Spain despite the influential criminal legal traditions and vigorous intellectual communities in these countries.
Keywords:
Intellectual communities; international journals of criminology; contemporary knowledge; SCImago Journal Ranking

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