Korean Journal of Defense Analysis

Korean Journal of Defense Analysis is published by Korea Institute for Defense Analyses and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies, International Relations and Foreign Policy and Nuclear Issues and Defense, together about 57% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Published by KIDA from 2011. 2009 Impact Factor: 0.255 Ranking: 49/59 (International Relations) © 2010 Thomson Reuters, 2009 Journal Citation Reports ® Since its first publication in 1989, The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis has been covering a broad range of topics related to foreign policy, defense and international affairs in the Asia-Pacific region. As the oldest SSCI registered English journal of political science in Asia, The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis has promoted efforts to provide an arena for sharing initiatives and new perspectives on military and security issues of the Asia-Pacific region. To offer better support to this idea of active intercommunication amongst scholars and defense experts around the globe, The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis made a decision to publish quarterly, starting from 2005. The Editorial Board of The Korean Journal for Defense Analysis , which publishes the journal in March, June, September, and December, always welcomes contributions of quality articles on the aforementioned topics. Disclaimer The Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) and Taylor & Francis make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in its publications. However, the Society and Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the Editor, the Society or Taylor & Francis. Sorry, there are currently no metrics available for this journal.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.41LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2009

0.26Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

0.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.27LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

16OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

40OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

24LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Korea Institute for Defense Analyses

ISSN

1016-3271

Electronic ISSN

1941-4641

Latest issue on the website

Volume 22, Issue 4 (2010)

Official links

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