Security Studiespublishes leading scholarship in the field of international security, broadly construed. The journal is wedded to no particular theoretical paradigm, epistemological stance, or methodological approach. Security Studies embraces the field in all its intellectual diversity, welcoming contributions to scholarly knowledge from the plural communities and research traditions that constitute the field. Its articles provide an answer to an explanatory puzzle, present original empirical research (using a range of methods), critically engage core theoretical concepts, or otherwise intervene in disciplinary debates. Security Studies articles' analysis is rigorous in terms appropriate to their methodological approach.
Security Studies welcomes scholars from all disciplines, and its articles do not conform to narrow disciplinary norms. However, authors might find it helpful to understand what Security Studies is not. Although Security Studies articles are often motivated by policy questions and often have policy implications - and Security Studies encourages authors to spell those out - Security Studies is not a policy journal; its articles are directed primarily toward generating scholarly knowledge, rather than arguing for a particular policy. Similarly, although Security Studies has traditionally been, and remains, sympathetic to careful and deep historical research, it is not a history journal; Security Studies articles engage with historical materials to answer analytical questions and address analytically-framed debates. Articles that are purely descriptive - for instance, of a particular region's contemporary or past security challenges, of a government's decision-making process, of a historical case - will not pass muster. Articles published in Security Studies will be explicit about their central analytical pivot and be framed around those analytical questions and contributions.
A successful submission to Security Studies will generally:
Establish the significance of its central analytical question(s). Successful submissions will effectively articulate the article's stakes - theoretical, empirical, political, and/or normative;
Clearly specify the theoretical framework used for analysis, referencing the necessary literature(s);
Adhere to rigorous methodical standards, as understood by the intellectual tradition within which the article is situated, in setting forth the evidentiary bases of its argument;
Engage with work outside of its immediate field of research and approach to scholarly inquiry. Authors who publish in Security Studies are speaking to the field as a whole, not just to scholars working within their specific area and research tradition;
Spell out the implications of their findings for further research.
Peer Review Policy: All articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent referees.
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Journal metrics
Usage
276K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.2 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
3.3 (2023) 5 year IF
2.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.099 (2023) SNIP
0.650 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
9 days avg. from submission to first
decision
75 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
98 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
11% 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.
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.
Ron Hassner, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Associate Editors Fiona Adamson, SOAS University of London, UK Seva Gunitsky, University of Toronto, Canada Janet Lewis , George Washington University, USA Roseanne McManus, Penn State University, USA Nicholas L. Miller, Dartmouth College, USA Andrew Phillips, University of Queensland, Australia
Managing Editor Lauren Barden-Hair, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Editorial Board Co-chairs Michael C. Desch, University of Notre Dame, USA William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College, USA Members Aisha Ahmad, University of Toronto, Canada Thierry Balzacq, Sciences Po, France Tarak Barkawi, London School of Economics, UK Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge, UK Willem Boettcher, North Carolina State University, USA Risa Brooks, Marquette University, USA Jonathan D. Caverley, United States Naval War College, USA Erica Chenoweth, Harvard University, USA Bridget Coggins, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Timothy Crawford, Boston College, USA James W. Davis, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Alexander B. Downes, George Washington University, USA David Edelstein, Georgetown University, USA Jennifer L. Erickson, Boston College, USA Theo Farrell, King's College, London, UK M. Taylor Fravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Francis J. Gavin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Alexandra Gheciu, University of Ottawa, Canada Eugene Gholz, University of Notre Dame, USA Stacie Goddard, Wellesley College, USA Kelly M. Greenhill, Tufts University and Harvard Kennedy School, USA Mark Haas, Duquesne University, USA Lene Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Cullen Hendrix, University of Denver, USA Stephanie Hofmann, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland Yuen Foong Khong, University of Oxford, UK Helen Kinsella, University of Minnesota, USA Jonathan Kirshner, Boston College, USA Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota, USA Sarah Kreps, Cornell University, USA Keir A. Lieber, Georgetown University, USA Jennifer Lind, Dartmouth College, USA Steven Lobell, University of Utah, USA Benny Miller, University of Haifa, Israel Jennifer Mitzen, The Ohio State University, USA Nuno Monteiro (1971-2021), Yale University, USA Vipin Narang, MIT, USA John M. Owen IV, University of Virginia, USA Daryl G. Press, Dartmouth College, USA Brian Rathbun, University of Southern Californa, Dornsife, USA Will Reno, Northwestern University, USA Sebastian Rosato, University of Notre Dame, USA Joshua Rovner, American University, USA Chiara Ruffa, Sciences Po, France Randall Schweller, The Ohio State University, USA Jeremi Suri, University of Texas, Austin, USA Jeffrey Taliaferro, Tufts University, USA Shiping Tang, Fudan University, China Jakana Thomas, University of California San Diego, USA Alexander Thompson, The Ohio State University, USA Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University, USA Keren Yarhi-Milo, Columbia University, USA Andrew Yeo, Catholic University, USA
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