Democracy and Security is the authoritative source for rigorous exploration of the mechanisms and policies utilized by democracies to deal with security challenges, as well as relevant moral, social, and political dilemmas. The journal publishes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical articles on concepts and functions that shape the relations between various international and national security policies, concerns, and needs on the one hand, and central values, institutions, and processes of democratic societies on the other. The journal is committed to provide exposure to diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, as well as policy approaches.
Democracy and Security features timely and informative contributions from leading scholars on a range of topics, including:
Democratic societies and their struggle with domestic threats.
Moral dimensions of national security in democracies.
Legal dimensions of national security in democracies.
Mass communications and national security.
Social implications on national security issues.
Constraints of democratic governments in shaping national security policy.
Forms of government and perceptions of national dilemmas.
Democracies, minorities, and national security.
The role of civil society in shaping national security decisions in democratic regimes.
Public opinion, counter-terrorism, and national security dilemmas.
The politics of defense policies.
The psychology of decision-making processes in the context of national security issues.
Civilian sphere of domestic and human security.
The role of the legislative branch in shaping security policies.
Electoral processes, party politics, and national security.
Democracy and Security will be of interest to scholars from a variety of academic disciplines such as: political science, sociology, philosophy, law, psychology, mass communications, criminology, security studies, environmental studies, history, military studies, and anthropology.
Peer Review
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, are then subject to peer review by two or more independent, anonymous expert referees. For special issues, articles will be reviewed by the journal editors and a single expert referee for all items in the special issue. Book reviews do not go through peer review and are typically solicited and assessed by the journal’s editorial team. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. The journal publishes a list of its referees in the last issue of each volume.
Journal metrics
Usage
45K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.8 (2023) Impact Factor
0.7 (2023) 5 year IF
1.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.166 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
130 days avg. from submission to first
decision
27% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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.
Director, Graduate Program in Security Studies University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, MA 01845
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Tess Hemmila University of Massachusetts, Lowell Lowell, MA 01845
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Christopher Linebarger University of Massachusetts, Lowell Lowell, MA 01854 E-mail: [email protected]
EDITORIAL BOARD
Rogelio Alonso- King Juan Carlos University, Madrid Spain Faisal Al-Rfouh -Gandhi Center for Peace Studies, University of Jordan, Kingdom of Jordan Giovanni Capoccia -Corpus Christi College, Oxford, United Kingdom William Eubank -University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA Dipak Gupta -San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA Mohamed Hafez -Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA
Assaf Moghadam - Interdisciplinary Center (IFC), Herzliya, Israel Leonardo Morlino -University of Florence, Florence, Italy Peter Neumann -Kings College, University of London, United Kingdom Jerrold Post -George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA David Rapoport -UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA Fernando Reinares -Spanish Ministry of Interior, King Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain Ian Turner - University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire, United Kingdom Democracy and Security is sponsored by the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa and the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/indexed in: CSA; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA); Lancaster Index to Defence and International Security Literature; OCLC; Scopus; The Standard Periodical Directory; and Ulrichs Periodicals Directory.
Open access
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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)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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Print ISSN:
1741-9166
Online ISSN:
1555-5860
4 issues per year
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