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Security Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0963-6412Verify ISSN ↗1556-1852Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 132 / 745 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 299 / 1530 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Security Studies is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 132 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 299 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Security Studies 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.552, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 70.
Security Studies is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0963-6412 and its online ISSN is 1556-1852.
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.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Security Studies has an h-index of 94 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #208 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Security Studies published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 136. 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 19 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (72.8%), United Kingdom (12.3%) and Germany (5.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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