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Defence Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1470-2436Verify ISSN ↗1743-9698Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 50 / 1936 | 97th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 190 / 745 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Defence Studies is Q1 in History (rank 50 of 1936) and Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 190 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Defence Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1, 97th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.475, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 23.
Defence Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1470-2436 and its online ISSN is 1743-9698.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Defence Studies has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Defence Studies published 56 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (16.1%), Sweden (10%) and United Arab Emirates (9.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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