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Security Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 0955-1662Verify ISSN ↗1743-4645Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 118 / 1162 | 89th | Q1 |
| Safety Research | 32 / 108 | 70th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 233 / 506 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 2000, 1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Security Journal is Q1 in Law (rank 118 of 1162), Q2 in Safety Research (rank 32 of 108) and Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 233 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Security Journal is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.427, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 38.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Security Journal is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0955-1662 and its online ISSN is 1743-4645.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Security Journal has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 2.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #68 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Security Journal published 72 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (13.5%), United Kingdom (8.8%) and China (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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