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Defence Science Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre.
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ISSN 0011-748XVerify ISSN ↗0976-464XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary | 107 / 223 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 690 / 1030 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 508 / 740 | 31st | Q3 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 173 / 248 | 30th | Q3 |
| Computer Science Applications | 735 / 1022 | 28th | Q3 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 274 / 342 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present (also 1970–1989), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Defence Science Journal is Q2 in Multidisciplinary (rank 107 of 223), Q3 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 690 of 1030) and Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 508 of 740), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Defence Science Journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.237, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
Defence Science Journal is published by Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre. Its print ISSN is 0011-748X and its online ISSN is 0976-464X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Defence Science Journal has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #103 of 208 Scopus journals in Multidisciplinary.
Defence Science Journal published 131 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (82.7%), China (3.1%) and Vietnam (2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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