About this journal
Aims and scope
Asian Security aims to be the foremost journal on all aspects of national and international security in Asia. We welcome articles on South, Central, Southeast, and East Asia or comparative articles that draw on cases from those regions. The journal covers "traditional" issues such as interstate warfare, the regional balance of power, alliances and other multilateral security institutions, national defense policies, strategic culture, civil-military relations, nuclear proliferation, conventional arms racing, arms control, and conflict-prone areas. The journal also covers "new" security issues such as the stability of democratic transitions, globalization and its backlash, ethnic conflict, insurgency and counter insurgency, nontraditional security threats, failing states, and transnational terrorism. The editors welcome submissions that are theoretically innovative and/or policy-focused on any of these topics. Policy-related articles should demonstrate engagement with literature in the field and have staying power beyond a single current event issue.
Asian Security strives to be a journal that is appreciated equally by both policymakers and scholars. Policy-related articles should demonstrate engagement with literature in the field and have staying power beyond a single current event issue.
Peer Review Policy: All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial editorial screening, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double-anonymous.
Publication Office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Journal metrics
Usage
- 50K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.000 (2023) SNIP
- 0.479 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 115 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 123 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 19% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Executive Editors
Michael R. Chambers - Indiana State University, USA
Amy L. Freedman - Pace University, USA
Devin T. Hagerty - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Andrew Oros - Washington College, USA
Leila Zakhirova - Concordia College, USA
Managing Editor
Manjeet Pardesi -Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Editorial Board
Zakaria Haji Ahmad - Universiti Kebangsaan, MalaysiaKanti Bajpai - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Richard Betts - Columbia University, USA
Michael E. Brown - George Washington University, USA
Kent Calder - Johns Hopkins University, USA
Victor Cha - Georgetown University, USA
Rosemary Foot - University of Oxford, UK
Sumit Ganguly - Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
John Garver - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Evelyn Goh - Australian National University, Australia
Avery Goldstein - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Larry Goodson - U.S. Army College, USA
Timothy Hoyt- U.S. Naval War College, USA
Julie Chernov Hwang - Goucher College, USA
Darryl Jarvis - Education University of Hong Kong
Nori Katagiri - St. Louis University, USA
Paul Kapur - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA
Peter Katzenstein - Cornell University, USA
P.R. Kumaraswamy - Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Peter Lavoy - ExxonMobil
John Mearsheimer - University of Chicago, USA
Dinshaw Mistry - University of Cincinnati, USA
Chris Ogden - University of St. Andrews, UK
Michael O'Hanlon - Brookings Institution, USA
Tanya Ogilvie-White - Australian National University, Australia
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan - Observer Research Foundation, India
Scott Sagan - Stanford University, USA
Yasuyo Sakata - Kanda University of International Studies, Japan
Richard Samuels - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Andrew Scobell - United States Institute of Peace, USA
Yuki Tatsumi - Stimson Center, USA
Chanintira na Thalang - Thammasat University, Thailand
Ashley Tellis - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
William Tow - Australian National University, Australia
Donald Zagoria - National Committee on American Foreign Policy, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/indexed in: Bibliography of Asian Studies; CSA; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; Scopus; and OCLC.
Open access
Asian Security is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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