Source journals
Scope, tiers & prioritisation
The journal covers all of the social sciences — but a paper is in scope only when it makes a substantive contribution to AI or AGI. The paper must have AI/AGI as a central object, mechanism, empirical setting, theoretical implication, policy concern or methodological contribution. A paper that merely mentions AI is excluded.
Which venues. Primarily recently-published research in the determined top-tier social-science venues; additionally, two disclosed off-list categories. (a) A small number of influential preprints / working papers (e.g. arXiv) whose AI/AGI claims are already shaping policy or discourse before peer review — always disclosed as not-peer-reviewed and off the monitored-venue list, critiqued because their influence outruns their review status. (b) Peer-reviewed articles in venues outside the journal's monitored determination (e.g. specialist education journals) — disclosed as off-list and carrying the 'exception' venue class. Both are off the monitored-venue list and never presented as top-tier-venue publications; a preprint is never described as peer-reviewed, and a peer-reviewed off-list venue is never labelled not-peer-reviewed. See selection provenance for the per-critique record (which targets are monitored venues vs disclosed preprints).
Pilot cluster. AI/AGI in management, organisations, information systems, labour, governance and policy — close to ABS/AJG relevance, with strong societal impact.
Eligible fields
- Management & organisation studies
- Information systems
- Economics
- Labour studies
- Sociology
- Political science
- Public policy
- Public administration
- Law & regulation
- Education
- Psychology & behavioural science
- Communication & media studies
- Science & technology studies
- Anthropology
- Criminology & surveillance studies
- Innovation studies
- Ethics & responsible innovation (as social-science scholarship)
What “top-tier” means
A combination model, not a single list:
- 1. Determined WITHIN field (citation rates differ ~5–10× across social-science fields), never by a raw cross-field impact factor.
- 2. Integrity gate first: indexed in Scopus / Web of Science SSCI, not flagged predatory.
- 3. Then ≥ 2 of three signals — (a) Q1 by field-normalised citation rank (OpenAlex 2-yr mean-citedness quartile within the field); (b) top decile of the field on the same field-normalised metric; (c) a top expert-list grade (ABS/AJG 4★, ABDC A★, CNRS 1★, FT50, or the discipline's consensus flagship).
- 4. Tiers: S = consensus elite (flagship grade + strong field metrics); A = clearly top-tier (Q1 + an A-grade list placement); B = strong field journal (a single strong signal, critiqued only at high AI/AGI relevance); Exception = under-ranked but mission-critical, with public justification.
- 5. Each venue's determination — the OpenAlex numbers, the field quartile/decile, the expert grade and source, and a recorded expertEliteGrade flag (whether the grade satisfies signal (c)) — is logged with its as-of date, so signalsFired re-derives exactly as q1 + topDecile + expertEliteGrade (reproducible, not asserted); refreshed on the lists' own cadence.
Journal tiers
| Tier | Meaning | Inclusion rule |
|---|
| S | Core elite source journals | Routine monitoring. |
| A | High-quality field-leading journals | AI triage and selective critique. |
| B | Selective-inclusion journals | Critique only if AI/AGI relevance is high. |
| Exception | Under-ranked but important journals | Requires public editorial justification. |
| Watchlist / excluded | Weak, dubious or out-of-scope journals | Normally excluded. |
The determined venue set
The selection queue draws candidates only from these 137 monitored journals across 12 fields, determined 2026-06-17 by the composite rule above. Each tier records the signals that produced it — the integrity gate, the field-normalised OpenAlex 2-year mean-citedness, the field quartile/decile, and the expert-list grade + source — so it is reproducible, not asserted. Hover a row for the full determination.
The OpenAlex figures are a dated point-in-time snapshot (2026-06-17), not a live feed. Each is re-verifiable on demand against the live API, and the determination is re-run on the source lists’ own cadence rather than continuously — so a tier reflects the evidence as of its as-of date.
Composite determination applied per venue: an integrity gate (OpenAlex is_indexed_in_scopus, with is_core=true accepted as the documented successor flag where Scopus is null), then three quality signals — (q1) top quartile, (topDecile) top decile, and a real expert-list grade or consensus-flagship status — with tier set by how many fire. Refute-by-default adversarial pass: S/A retained only where >=2 signals fire AND at least one is a genuine expert-list grade or consensus-flagship status. Any tier resting on a single fired signal was demoted (S->A if the venue is a verifiable consensus flagship that keeps top-tier standing without metric corroboration; otherwise to B). Any venue whose OpenAlex 2yr metric is -1/corrupted cannot sustain A and was demoted to B. The Scopus gate is honest: venues with is_core=false (Scopus not confirmed) are Excluded unless retained as an explicitly mission-justified Exception. Student-edited US law reviews, which Scopus structurally does not citation-track (2yr=0 by venue class, not by quality), are routed to Exception with a mission justification rather than allowed to hold S on a single non-metric signal. Duplicates were collapsed to a single home field (the discipline where the venue carries its strongest defensible grounding). Each determination records expertEliteGrade (whether its expert grade qualifies as signal (c)), so signalsFired re-derives exactly as q1 + topDecile + expertEliteGrade — reproducible, not asserted. On the 2026-06-17 reproducibility audit, three single-signal S venues (Information Systems Research, Social Studies of Science, and Science, Technology & Human Values) were demoted S->A: each is a genuine consensus flagship but carries only its grade signal (q1/decile not met on the field-normalised metric), and the method sets S = an elite grade AND >=2 signals. STRICT grade reading (adopted 2026-06-17): signal (c) fires only for a top-band grade — ABS/AJG 4*, ABDC A*, CNRS 1*, FT50, or a discipline consensus flagship — NOT for the second-band AJG 4 or ABDC A. Signals are a necessary floor, not a total order: a venue is placed at the highest tier its signals support AND its field-consensus standing warrants; the determination DEMOTES a tier its strict signals cannot support but never auto-promotes on signals alone (S is the field's consensus elite, not every venue clearing two signals). Applying the strict reading demote-only moved 24 venues (2 S->A, 10 A->B, 12 B->Exception); all 137 stay monitored — sub-threshold but core-indexed, field-recognised journals are retained as monitored Exceptions, not excluded.
Economics & finance · 12
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| American Economic Review | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 13.4 · 601 | top decile | AJG 4*; FT50; consensus top-5 economics |
| Quarterly Journal of Economics | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 17.6 · 539 | top decile | AJG 4*; FT50; consensus top-5 economics |
| Journal of Political Economy | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.6 · 494 | top decile | AJG 4*; FT50; consensus top-5 economics |
| Econometrica | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 6.6 · 529 | top decile | AJG 4*; FT50; consensus top-5 economics |
| The Review of Economic Studies | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 15.0 · 349 | top decile | AJG 4*; FT50; consensus top-5 economics |
| The Journal of Finance | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 11.4 · 661 | top decile | AJG 4*; FT50; finance 'big three' |
| Journal of Financial Economics | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 10.0 · 550 | top decile | AJG 4*; FT50; finance 'big three' |
| The Review of Financial Studies | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 10.2 · 393 | top decile | AJG 4*; FT50; finance 'big three' |
| The Review of Economics and Statistics | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.1 · 351 | Q1 | AJG 4* |
| Journal of Monetary Economics | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.5 · 277 | top decile | AJG 4* |
| American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 5.4 · 124 | top decile | AJG 4* |
| Journal of Econometrics | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 2.7 · 330 | — | AJG 4*; FT50 |
Management & organisation · 11
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| Academy of Management Review | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 7.6 · 599 | top decile | AJG 4*, FT50 |
| Journal of Management | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 8.1 · 398 | top decile | AJG 4*, FT50 |
| Strategic Management Journal | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 6.9 · 507 | Q1 | AJG 4*, FT50 |
| Organization Science | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 6.2 · 386 | Q1 | AJG 4*, FT50 |
| Academy of Management Journal | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.7 · 570 | Q1 | AJG 4*, FT50 |
| Administrative Science Quarterly | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 3.8 · 472 | — | AJG 4*, FT50; consensus big-three flagship |
| Journal of Management Studies | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 5.9 · 297 | Q1 | AJG 4, FT50 |
| Management Science | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 5.3 · 477 | Q1 | AJG 4*, FT50 |
| Journal of Organizational Behavior | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 5.3 · 315 | Q1 | AJG 4 |
| Organization Studies | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 3.3 · 257 | — | AJG 4 |
| Organization | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 1.8 · 154 | — | AJG 3 |
Information systems · 10
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| MIS Quarterly | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 6.0 · 358 | Q1 | AJG 4*; ABDC A*; AIS Basket of 8 |
| Information Systems Research | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.9 · 236 | — | AJG 4*; ABDC A*; AIS Basket of 8 |
| Journal of Management Information Systems | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 7.5 · 226 | top decile | AJG 4; ABDC A*; AIS Basket of 8 |
| Journal of the Association for Information Systems | Tier B | ✓ indexed | — · 181 | — | AJG 4; ABDC A*; AIS Basket of 8 |
| European Journal of Information Systems | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 6.8 · 169 | top decile | AJG 4; ABDC A*; AIS Basket of 8 |
| Information Systems Journal | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 7.0 · 138 | top decile | AJG 4; ABDC A*; AIS Basket of 8 |
| Journal of Information Technology | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 4.7 · 125 | — | AJG 4; ABDC A*; AIS Basket of 8 |
| The Journal of Strategic Information Systems | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 9.5 · 135 | top decile | AJG 4; ABDC A*; AIS Basket of 8 |
| Decision Support Systems | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 7.0 · 230 | top decile | AJG 3; ABDC A |
| Information & Management | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 5.7 · 250 | Q1 | AJG 3; ABDC A* |
Marketing · 8
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| Journal of Marketing | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.6 · 529 | top decile | AJG 4*, FT50, consensus flagship (UTD/Premier) |
| Journal of Marketing Research | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 2.6 · 415 | top decile | AJG 4*, FT50, consensus flagship (UTD/Premier) |
| Journal of Consumer Research | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 6.6 · 390 | top decile | AJG 4*, FT50, consensus flagship |
| Marketing Science | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.7 · 233 | top decile | AJG 4*, FT50, consensus flagship (UTD quant) |
| Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 9.1 · 290 | top decile | AJG 4*, FT50 |
| Journal of Consumer Psychology | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.6 · 189 | top decile | AJG 4*, FT50 |
| Journal of Retailing | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.5 · 222 | top decile | AJG 4, FT50 |
| International Journal of Research in Marketing | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 5.6 · 165 | top decile | AJG 4, FT50 |
Sociology · 11
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| American Sociological Review | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.3 · 523 | top decile | AJG 4* / ABDC A* / consensus flagship (big three) |
| American Journal of Sociology | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 1.0 · 389 | — | AJG 4* / ABDC A* / consensus flagship (big three) |
| Annual Review of Sociology | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 6.8 · 314 | top decile | consensus flagship (highest-impact sociology review) |
| Social Forces | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 1.0 · 348 | — | AJG 4* / ABDC A* |
| Sociological Methods & Research | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 3.5 · 159 | top decile | AJG 4 / ABDC A |
| Journal of Health and Social Behavior | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 2.8 · 259 | top decile | AJG 4 / ABS 4 (ASA flagship) |
| Sociological Theory | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 2.8 · 131 | top decile | AJG 4 / ABDC A |
| Journal of Marriage and Family | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 2.7 · 303 | top decile | AJG 4 / ABDC A |
| European Sociological Review | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 2.5 · 154 | top decile | AJG 4 / ABDC A |
| Sociology of Education | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 2.4 · 193 | top decile | AJG 4 / ABDC A (ASA flagship) |
| Demography | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 2.3 · 227 | Q1 | AJG 4 / ABDC A |
Science & technology studies · 10
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| Big Data & Society | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 5.8 · 104 | top decile | recognized flagship of critical data/AI studies (under-graded: AJG 2) |
| Research Policy | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 7.0 · 401 | top decile | AJG 4 / FT50 / ABDC A* |
| Technology in Society | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 11.1 · 159 | top decile | ABDC B / AJG 2 |
| Social Studies of Science | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 2.3 · 165 | — | consensus flagship (STS big-two) |
| Science, Technology, & Human Values | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 1.4 · 128 | — | consensus flagship (STS big-two; official 4S journal) |
| Public Understanding of Science | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 3.1 · 129 | — | leading science-communication journal |
| Science and Public Policy | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 2.4 · 113 | — | ABDC B / AJG 2 |
| Minerva | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 2.1 · 77 | — | established science-policy / higher-education journal |
| Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 1.2 · 96 | — | leading HPS journal |
| Engaging Science, Technology, and Society | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 1.0 · 33 | — | official open-access journal of 4S |
Political science · 12
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| American Political Science Review | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.2 · 401 | top decile | ABDC A* / AJG 4* / CNRS 1 / consensus big-three |
| American Journal of Political Science | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 4.3 · 332 | top decile | ABDC A* / AJG 4* / CNRS 1 / consensus big-three |
| Annual Review of Political Science | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.6 · 189 | top decile | ABDC A* / AJG 4* |
| International Organization | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 3.3 · 266 | top decile | ABDC A* / AJG 4* / CNRS 1 / flagship of IR |
| The Journal of Politics | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 2.6 · 241 | Q1 | ABDC A* / AJG 4 / consensus big-three |
| Comparative Political Studies | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 3.6 · 196 | top decile | ABDC A* / AJG 4 |
| Political Analysis | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.0 · 130 | top decile | ABDC A* / AJG 4* (methods flagship) |
| World Politics | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 3.3 · 215 | top decile | ABDC A* / AJG 4* / CNRS 1 |
| European Journal of Political Research | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 3.2 · 179 | top decile | ABDC A* / AJG 4 |
| British Journal of Political Science | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 3.0 · 186 | top decile | ABDC A* / AJG 4* / CNRS 1 |
| Journal of Conflict Resolution | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 1.4 · 201 | Q1 | ABDC A* / AJG 4 |
| Perspectives on Politics | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 1.0 · 165 | — | ABDC A / AJG 3-4 |
Public policy & administration · 11
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 4.8 · 187 | top decile | AJG 4 (consensus PA flagship) |
| Journal of European Public Policy | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 5.9 · 184 | top decile | AJG 4; ABDC A |
| Public Administration Review | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 3.2 · 249 | Q1 | AJG 4 (consensus PA flagship) |
| Public Management Review | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 4.0 · 135 | Q1 | AJG 4 |
| Public Administration | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 4.0 · 156 | Q1 | AJG 4 |
| Policy Sciences | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 4.2 · 110 | Q1 | AJG 3 / ABDC A |
| Policy & Politics | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.6 · 89 | top decile | AJG 3 |
| Journal of Policy Analysis and Management | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 1.5 · 178 | — | AJG 4 / ABDC A* |
| Policy Studies Journal | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 2.6 · 123 | — | AJG 3 / ABDC A |
| Regulation & Governance | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 2.7 · 88 | Q1 | AJG 3 |
| Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 1.9 · 126 | — | AJG 4 |
Psychology · 12
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| Psychological Bulletin | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 9.4 · 649 | top decile | consensus flagship (premier review journal) |
| Psychological Review | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 4.9 · 515 | top decile | consensus flagship (premier theory journal) |
| Annual Review of Psychology | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 12.9 · 405 | top decile | consensus flagship (top-cited review series) |
| Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 2.7 · 757 | Q1 | consensus flagship (social/personality) |
| Psychological Science | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.5 · 414 | top decile | consensus flagship (APS empirical) |
| Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 9.3 · 459 | top decile | consensus flagship of cognitive science |
| Perspectives on Psychological Science | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 9.1 · 244 | top decile | A-grade flagship (APS meta-science/theory) |
| American Psychologist | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 3.1 · 504 | Q1 | consensus flagship (official APA journal) |
| Journal of Applied Psychology | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.2 · 520 | top decile | AJG 4* / ABDC A* |
| Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 14.6 · 186 | top decile | A-grade flagship (top clinical review series) |
| Nature Human Behaviour | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 12.6 · 176 | top decile | elite interdisciplinary (Nature family) |
| Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 1.1 · 303 | — | recognized elite open-peer-commentary venue (no metric tier) |
Communication & media · 11
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| Journal of Communication | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 4.3 · 232 | Q1 | AJG 4 + consensus flagship (ICA) |
| Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 6.6 · 179 | top decile | AJG 4 (ICA-affiliated elite) |
| Communication Research | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 4.5 · 189 | Q1 | AJG 4 + consensus flagship |
| New Media & Society | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 4.1 · 210 | Q1 | AJG 4 (leading new-media journal) |
| Communication Theory | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.5 · 131 | top decile | AJG 4 (ICA flagship theory) |
| Political Communication | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 4.5 · 142 | Q1 | AJG 4 |
| Digital Journalism | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 4.9 · 111 | Q1 | AJG 3 |
| Social Media + Society | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 4.5 · 115 | Q1 | AJG 1 (under-ranked) |
| Information, Communication & Society | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 3.0 · 173 | — | AJG 3 |
| Public Opinion Quarterly | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 2.9 · 216 | — | AJG 4 |
| Media, Culture & Society | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 3.2 · 122 | — | AJG 3 |
Education · 10
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| Review of Educational Research | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.5 · 319 | top decile | ABDC A* / AERA consensus flagship |
| American Educational Research Journal | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 4.4 · 269 | top decile | ABDC A* / AERA flagship empirical |
| Educational Researcher | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 3.2 · 271 | Q1 | ABDC A* / AERA agenda-setting flagship |
| Computers & Education | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 11.5 · 321 | top decile | ABDC A* / SJR Q1 (EdTech flagship) |
| Learning and Instruction | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 5.6 · 199 | top decile | ABDC A* / EARLI flagship |
| Educational Psychologist | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 8.3 · 237 | top decile | ABDC A* (leading ed-psych review) |
| Journal of the Learning Sciences | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.8 · 147 | Q1 | ABDC A* / learning-sciences flagship |
| Review of Research in Education | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 5.4 · 133 | top decile | AERA review annual (A-grade) |
| Journal of Educational Psychology | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 2.2 · 393 | — | ABDC A* / APA flagship |
| Cognition and Instruction | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 2.3 · 145 | — | ABDC A / leading learning-sciences journal |
Law & criminology · 19
| Journal | Tier | Gate | 2-yr cit · h | Field rank | Expert grade |
|---|
| Harvard Law Review | Tier exception | ✓ indexed | 0.0 · 158 | — | consensus flagship (#1 US general law review) |
| The Yale Law Journal | Tier exception | — | 0.0 · 159 | — | consensus flagship (top-2 US general law review) |
| Stanford Law Review | Tier exception | — | 0.0 · 108 | — | consensus flagship (top-3 US general law review) |
| Columbia Law Review | Tier exception | — | 0.0 · 123 | — | consensus flagship (top-5 US general law review) |
| The Journal of Law and Economics | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 2.8 · 194 | top decile | AJG 4; ABDC A |
| The Journal of Legal Studies | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 1.1 · 127 | Q1 | AJG 4; ABDC A |
| Law & Society Review | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 1.1 · 150 | Q1 | AJG 4*; ABDC A; flagship of sociolegal studies |
| The American Journal of Comparative Law | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 1.1 · 101 | Q1 | AJG 3-4 / ABDC A |
| Modern Law Review | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 0.6 · 85 | Q1 | AJG 4*; ABDC A |
| Criminology | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 2.3 · 226 | top decile | AJG 4*; ABDC A*; ASC flagship |
| Criminology & Public Policy | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 3.7 · 97 | top decile | AJG 4; ABDC A; ASC flagship policy journal |
| Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 2.4 · 153 | top decile | AJG 4; ABDC A; 'big-four' criminology |
| Justice Quarterly | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 2.0 · 145 | top decile | AJG 4; ABDC A; ACJS flagship |
| The British Journal of Criminology | Tier S | ✓ indexed | 1.8 · 153 | Q1 | AJG 4; ABDC A; leading non-US criminology flagship |
| Journal of Quantitative Criminology | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 1.1 · 129 | — | AJG 4; ABDC A; methods flagship |
| European Journal of Criminology | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 2.2 · 84 | top decile | AJG 3; ABDC A |
| Journal of Criminal Justice | Tier B | ✓ indexed | 2.0 · 156 | Q1 | AJG 3; ABDC A |
| Annual Review of Criminology | Tier A | ✓ indexed | 4.4 · 54 | top decile | Annual Reviews flagship review serial |
| Computer Law & Security Review | Tier exception | — | 4.4 · 81 | top decile | AJG 2; ABDC B; leading technology-law journal |
Paper prioritisation
The platform does not critique every AI-related paper. Candidates are prioritised by a weighted score:
- AI/AGI centrality25%
- Source-journal tier20%
- Policy or institutional relevance15%
- Methodological importance or fragility15%
- Conceptual novelty10%
- Early attention (citations, downloads, policy mentions, media)10%
- Risk of public over-interpretation5%
These criteria are operationalised in the live critique queue — a re-derivable ranking of recent, top-tier AI/AGI papers by impact, value-add, recency and tier.