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Journal of Regional Security is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), DOAJ. Published by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy.
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ISSN 2217-995XVerify ISSN ↗2406-0364Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 243 / 745 | 67th | Q2 |
| Safety Research | 58 / 108 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Journal of Regional Security is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 243 of 745) and Q3 in Safety Research (rank 58 of 108), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Regional 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 2.4, quartile Q2, 67th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.368, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Journal of Regional Security is published by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. Its print ISSN is 2217-995X and its online ISSN is 2406-0364.
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.
Journal of Regional Security has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 1.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #184 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Journal of Regional Security published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 19. 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 52 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Serbia (26%), United States (10.6%) and Czechia (7.1%).
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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