Journal profile · PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
ISSN 2194-6361 · eISSN 1547-7355 · Walter de Gruyter
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.23; hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,712; 20 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is published by Walter de Gruyter and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Disaster Management and Resilience, Disaster Response and Management and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, together about 47.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Created in 2004, the Journal of Homeland Securi ty and Emergency Management (JHSEM) is an online journal that publishes original, innovative, and timely articles describing and assessing research and practice in the fields of domestic security and emergency management. JHSEM encourages and adopts both a global perspective and international approach to its submissions and content. JHSEM seeks submissions on a wide array of issues from countering violent ex tremism to cybersecurity, to terrorism and counterterrorism, intelligence, emergency management includes topicssuch as disaster management, preparedness and response, resilience, climate or environmental security, public health, and strategy. Further, JHSEM accepts submissions that focus on policy or strategy as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Disaster Management and ResilienceSocial Sciences28%
- Disaster Response and ManagementHealth Professions12.2%
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political ViolenceSocial Sciences7%
- Public Relations and Crisis CommunicationSocial Sciences6.7%
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability AnalysisEngineering6.6%
- Information and Cyber SecurityComputer Science3.8%
- Risk and Safety AnalysisDecision Sciences3.7%
- Evacuation and Crowd DynamicsEngineering3.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public Administration | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public Administration | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public Administration | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Current ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, Baidu, OCLC
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.23LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.33LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- h-index
- 48OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 245OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.67OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 16.98%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 14LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 891 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 8 | 0 |
| 2025 | 20 | 3 | 14 |
| 2024 | 17 | 5 | 19 |
| 2023 | 27 | 8 | 128 |
| 2022 | 12 | 7 | 45 |
| 2021 | 22 | 6 | 100 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | EUR 2,400 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted1, with length limits
- reviewoordination with the submitting author. Reviews should be less than 1,5000 words. Point/Counterpoint: Point counterpoint submissions represemain text ≤ 5,000 words
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- ISSN
- 2194-6361
- Electronic ISSN
- 1547-7355
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
What CAS zone is Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Public Administration. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.23; CiteScore 2.2, h-index 48.
Which databases index Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,712.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .