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Asian Security

Routledge · United States · Est. 2005

ISSN1479-9855

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.548

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

356

Total Citationsi

4,407

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.86

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Asian Security aims to be the foremost journal on all aspects of national and international security in Asia. It welcomes articles on South, Central, Southeast, and East Asia or comparative articles that draw on cases from those regions.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2005

Annual Volume~ 15 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications356

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1479-9855

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

102

2019

171

2020

121

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Political Science and International RelationsQ2

Safety ResearchQ2

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Safety ResearchPolitical Science and International Relations

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

International Relations and Foreign PolicyMaritime Security and HistoryPeacebuilding and International SecurityPolitics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle EastInternational Development and AidAsian Geopolitics and EthnographyKorean Peninsula Historical and Political StudiesSouth Asian Studies and ConflictsInternational Maritime Law IssuesAsian Studies and History

Frequently asked questions about Asian Security

Is Asian Security a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Asian Security: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Asian Security?

Asian Security is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.548.

Is Asian Security indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Asian Security is indexed in Scopus.