Civil Wars publishes original scholarship on all aspects of intrastate conflict, including its causes and nature, and the factors which help to explain its onset, duration, intensity, termination and recurrence. It also publishes work which explores the epistemology of scholarship on intrastate conflict and contributes to debates about the politics, sociology and economics of civil wars, and the significance of intrastate conflict for international relations.
The journal has a broad intellectual remit designed to be multidisciplinary and open to a range of different academic methodologies and interests. It welcomes work on specific armed conflicts and micro-analysis, on broad patterns of civil wars, and on historical perspectives as well as contemporary challenges. It also seeks to explore the policy implications of conflict analysis, especially as it relates to international security, conflict prevention and resolution, intervention and peacebuilding.
Civil Wars will be required reading for students and scholars of armed conflict and international relations, and, given its policy relevance, will be of interest to those in government, international organisations and the military.
Peer Review
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, research (and practitioner note) articles are then subject to rigorous, double anonymized peer review by at least two referees. For special issues, proposals are first reviewed by the editors and the Editorial Board (or a sub-set of the Board) and if found suitable for taking forward, all special issue articles (including introductions) will be subject to rigorous, double anonymized peer review by at least two referees. Book reviews do not go through peer review but are reviewed instead by the journal's Book Reviews team.
Civil Wars aims to be an inclusive journal and actively strives for equality, diversity and representation in our authorship and Editorial Board. We try to avoid all-male line-ups where possible and strongly encourage submissions from scholars in the Global South and from underrepresented groups.
Journal metrics
Usage
97K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
1.7 (2023) 5 year IF
2.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.650 (2023) SNIP
0.393 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
50 days avg. from submission to first
decision
43 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
67% acceptance rate
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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
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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.
Co-Editors: Alex Waterman - University of Bradford, UK James Worrall - University of Leeds, UK
Deputy Editor:
Sukanya Podder -Kings College London,UK
Assistant Editor: Migena Pengili -University of Leeds, UK
Book Reviews Editor: Rebecca Tapscott -University of York, UK
Associate Reviews Editor: Daniel Rincón Machón -University of Cambridge, UK
Editorial Board:
Navnita Behera –Delhi University, India Alex Bellamy –Griffiths University, Australia Christopher Bellamy -Cranfield University, UK Berit Bliesemann de Guevara –Aberystwyth University, UK David Chandler –University of Westminster, UK Karl DeRouen Jr –University of Alabama, US Mark Duffield –University of Bristol, UK Marsha Henry –Queen’s University, UK Heidi Hudson –University of the Free State, South Africa Caroline Hughes –University of Notre Dame, US Caroline Kennedy-Pipe –University of Hull, UK Moses Khisa –North Carolina State University, US Nicolas Lemay-Hebert –Australian National University, Australia Zoe Marks –Harvard University, US Claire Metelits –Marine Corps University, Command and Staff College, US Gearoid Millar –University of Aberdeen, UK Mansoob Murshed –Coventry University, UK, and International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands Edward Newman –University of Leeds, UK Gerd Nonneman –Georgetown University Qatar, Doha ‘Funmi Olonisakin –Kings College London, UK Ami Pedazhur –University of Texas at Austin, US William Reno –Northwestern University, US Oliver P Richmond –University of Manchester, UK Astri Suhrke –Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway Meressa Tsehaye –Mekelle University, Ethiopia Nina Wilen –Egmont Institute, Belgium Stefan Wolff –University of Birmingham, UK
Updated 22-01-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Civil Wars is covered by the following abstracting, indexing and citation services: ABC-CLIO - Historical Abstracts and ABC-CLIO - America: History and Life
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