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Global Security - Health, Science and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2377-9497Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 215 / 745 | 71st | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 178 / 387 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Global Security - Health, Science and Policy is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 215 of 745) and Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 178 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Security - Health, Science and Policy 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 2.7, quartile Q2, 71st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.276, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$821 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Global Security - Health, Science and Policy is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its ISSN is 2377-9497.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Global Security - Health, Science and Policy has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 1.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #135 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Global Security - Health, Science and Policy published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 15. 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 42 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.6%), India (5.9%) and Indonesia (4.8%).
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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