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50 Aust. & N.Z. J. Criminology 3 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/anzjc50 and id is 1 raw text is: C5 sOC Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology New Editors' Introduction 2017, Vol. 50( 3-4 @ The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permissions: Andrew Goldsmith and Mark Halsey sagepub.co.uI/journalsPermissions.nav Flinders University, Australia DOI: 10. 1177/0004865816687506 journals.sagepub.com/home/anj OSAGE We welcome the privilege of taking on the Editorial role of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (hereafter ANZJCRIM). In doing so, we want to offer our sincere thanks to the previous Editors (Philip Stenning and Anna Stewart) and their larger editorial team (particularly Fiona Saunders) for their dedication to the jour- nal over the last four years. In taking on the Editorship role, we think it is important to briefly state our priorities for the journal over coming years. The current list of online articles is sufficient to fill the hard copy of the journal until May 2018. Our vision for the medium- to long-term direction of the journal the quality and broad thematic focal points of each issue will therefore have to be tempered by the considerable stock of publications accepted to date. Indeed, whether there is an argument to wind down and cease the production of the hard copy is, to our minds, an important question. What, exactly, is the significance of the hard copy in the digital age? If the journal is to continue in hard copy format, then one idea will be to publish book reviews in soft copy only. This will permit at least some additional space for refereed articles from year to year. That said, we aim to work strategically to shape and further enhance the reputation of the journal. One way is to focus on improving the journal's international standing and ranking in the Web of Science Journal Citation Reports. We recognize, of course, the range of views surrounding journal rankings. But rankings are a reality and they matter rankings have consequences for academic and professional staffing as well as the quantum of research funding (especially, but not only, from NCG sources) awarded to Australian scholars/ universities. In short, the quality of submissions that journals are consistently able to attract is tied, more than ever, to rankings and associated one-year and five-year impact factors (hereafter IF). As at November 2016, ANZJCRIM ranked 41 out of 57 in the Criminology and Penology category and had a one-year IF of 0.696 (meaning that after 12 months from publication an article would be cited less than once). By comparison, Punishment and Society ranked 30 with an IF of 0.833; European Journal of Criminology ranked 21 and returned an IF of 1.305; Theoretical Criminology ranked 18 with an IF of 1.536; British Journal of Criminology ranked 14 with an IF of 1.643; and Criminology ranked 2 of 57 with an IF of 4.7778. We are not suggesting that ANZJCRIM could approach the ranking or IF of Criminology. But we believe there is scope to do better. Our goal, over the next three to six years, is to have ANZJCRIM sitting within the top 30 Corresponding author: Mark Halsey, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. Email: mark.halsey@flinders.edu.au

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