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Journal of Human Security is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2). Published by H&N Publisher.
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ISSN 1835-3800Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: H&N Publisher
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 566 / 1162 | 51st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 854 / 1530 | 44th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 419 / 745 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Safety Research | 81 / 108 | 25th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2013–2017, 2009–2011), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of Human Security is Q2 in Law (rank 566 of 1162), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 854 of 1530) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 419 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Human Security 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 1.2, quartile Q2, 51st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.131, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Human Security is published by H&N Publisher. Its ISSN is 1835-3800.
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.
Journal of Human Security has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Human Security published 7 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 18. 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 33 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from Norway (26.8%), Poland (13.1%) and Indonesia (12.1%).
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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