Connections

Connections is published by Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies, European Politics and Security and International Relations and Foreign Policy, together about 41.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Connections: The Quarterly Journal is the flagship publication of the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. It is published on paper and online, originally in English and translated into Russian. The Journal is managed by the PfP Consortium Editorial Board and presents in-depth studies on current issues of Euroatlantic security. Connections: The Quarterly Journal is the flagship publication of the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. It is published on paper and online, originally in English and translated into Russian. The Journal is managed by the PfP Consortium Editorial Board and presents in-depth studies on current issues of Euroatlantic security. The list of preferred themes is available here. The Editorial Board manages also the publication of occasional longer papers in the Athena Papers series, also in English and Russian, and the Proceedings of the Annual Conferences of the PfP Consortium.Annually, the Editorial Board decides on the best paper published in the past year and, usually at the annual PfP Consortium conference, its author receives the Athena Award.The Consortium’s family of publications is available at no cost. If you would like to order printed copies for your library, or if you have questions regarding the Consortium’s publications, please use the Contact form on this site or write directly to the PfP Consortium Operations Staff at pfpcpublications [at] marshallcenter [dot] orgInterested contributors can submit papers on any of the current priority themes via a member of the Editorial Board or directly to pfpconsortium [at] marshallcenter [dot] orgIn the future this site will provide on-line opportunity for submission, review, and tracking of a submitted paper.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Law

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.6LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.24LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.44LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

22OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

87OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.36OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 40 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes

Country or region

United States

Language

English

ISSN

1812-1098

Electronic ISSN

1812-2973

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex