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Margalla Papers

National Defence University, Islamabad · Pakistan · Est. 2017

ISSN1999-2297eISSN2789-7028

✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

107

Total Citationsi

119

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.40

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: International relations; Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence: Private international law. Conflict of laws. Topics: regional and global issues, contemporary national and international security, foreign policy and diplomacy, defence developments, international and regional organizations, peacekeeping and global commons

General Information

Country / RegionPakistan

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2017

Annual Volume~ 18 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications107

OA Since2019

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble anonymous peer review

OA LicenseCC BY-NC

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

National Defence University, Islamabad

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1999-2297 / 2789-7028

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Indexed in a trusted database?

DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double anonymous peer review

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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)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

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

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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.

Subject Classification

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle EastBelt and Road InitiativeSouth Asian Studies and ConflictsInternational Relations and Foreign PolicyTerrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political ViolenceEconomic Sanctions and International RelationsNuclear Issues and DefenseGlobal Political and Economic RelationsPeacebuilding and International SecurityMaritime Security and History

Frequently asked questions about Margalla Papers

Is Margalla Papers a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Margalla Papers: it is indexed in DOAJ, 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 Margalla Papers?

Margalla Papers is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.40.

Is Margalla Papers indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Margalla Papers is indexed in DOAJ.