Journal profile
Security and Defence Quarterly
ISSN 2300-8741 · eISSN 2544-994X · Wydawnictwo Akademii Sztuki Wojennej · Poland
Security and Defence Quarterly: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 9 weeks (community reports); 33 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Security and Defence Quarterly is published by Wydawnictwo Akademii Sztuki Wojennej. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies, International Relations and Foreign Policy and European Politics and Security, together about 29.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Security and Defence Quarterly (ISSN 2300-8741; eISSN 2544-994X) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing knowledge in specific subfields of security and defence. The focus spans several distinct yet interconnected areas, including the protection of states, societies, organisations, and individuals from threats of a physical, digital, social, and geopolitical nature. The field encompasses protecting people, assets, information, and critical infrastructure through comprehensive policies, strategies, and operational plans that address both conventional and unconventional threats, such as cyberattacks, terrorism, and hybrid warfare. It also involves the integration of emerging technologies, consideration of ethical and legal implications, and the promotion of international cooperation to enhance resilience and stability in a complex global environment. SDQ serves as a platform for scholarly contributions from a diverse range of stakeholders, including academics, practitioners, and current and former military personnel/officers, making it a unique and invaluable resource. The journal aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of security and defence issues, encompassing the evolution of defence studies and the challenges related to security in the global environment, by encouraging rigorous scholarship and practical insights. SDQ invites original research papers, reviews, conceptual articles, short papers, book reviews, commentaries, and interviews that address various aspects of security and defence. Security and Defence Quarterly also publishes special issues as part of its regular publishing schedule or as additional issues. These special issues focus on pressing national and international security concerns, often underserved in traditional security studies literature. Established in 2013 by the National Defence University (renamed the War Studies University in 2016), Security and Defence Quarterly initially aimed to promote scientific research at universities affiliated with the Central European Forum on Military Education (CEFME). Since 2016, Security and Defence Quarterly has been published under the auspices of the Faculty of National Security of the War Studies University in Warsaw, Poland. The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and is indexed in DOAJ, ERIH+, EBSCO, Semantic Scholar, CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities), ROAD, Academic Journals, Directory of Resear
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Dorota DomalewskaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Russia 2, Ukraine 2, Poland 1, Greece 1 (6 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- European and Russian Geopolitical Military StrategiesSocial Sciences12.3%
- International Relations and Foreign PolicySocial Sciences9%
- European Politics and SecuritySocial Sciences8.4%
- Military Technology and StrategiesEngineering7.6%
- Defense, Military, and Policy StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.5%
- Military Strategy and TechnologyEngineering7.1%
- Military and Defense StudiesSocial Sciences6.7%
- Military History and StrategySocial Sciences5.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceScopusPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, Semantic Scholar, Sherpa Romeo
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
- h-index
- 14OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 33OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.35OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 97,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 409 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20 | 20 | 208 |
| 2025 | 33 | 33 | 266 |
| 2024 | 22 | 22 | 311 |
| 2023 | 24 | 24 | 185 |
| 2022 | 36 | 36 | 171 |
| 2021 | 29 | 29 | 104 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 9 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 9 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- No other fees
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted9, with length limits
- book reviewbooks written in English are preferred. Book reviews should be up to 3000 words long; Interviews with experts – should be up to 4000 wordsmain text ≤ 3,000 words
- book reviewsBook reviews – should set the book in a worldwide context, provide a brief overview of the contents, critically analyse the book's strengths and weaknesses, sho…Length not stated
- commentariesCommentaries are supposed to cover a contemporary issue or highlight important and/or novel conceptual issues, methodological features, results, and conclusions…Length not stated
- commentaryshould be included in your submission. Commentaries should be a maximum of 1000 words and have a maximum of ten references. Typically, they do nomain text ≤ 1,000 words
- conceptual papersConceptual papers, which do not present original data, but an original concept. They synthesise knowledge from previous work on a particular topic, and present …Length not stated
- interviews with expertsInterviews with experts – should be up to 4000 words long;Length not stated
- original researchOriginal research, with Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion sections. Submissions should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length;Length not stated
- review articlesReview articles, which include a comprehensive summary of research on a certain topic, with Introduction, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. They should be up t…Length not stated
- short papersShort papers should contain original work with focused and concise research contributions, incremental work, e.g. follow-up extensions or evaluations of existin…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics
- Publication ethics
Code of practice for ethical behaviour and malpractice handling. Model summary
Security and Defence Quarterly adheres to a strict code of practice to ensure a high standard of ethical behaviour and to deal with malpractice in a timely and responsible manner.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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
- Wydawnictwo Akademii Sztuki Wojennej
- Country or region
- Poland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2300-8741
- Electronic ISSN
- 2544-994X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Security and Defence Quarterly
How long does peer review take at Security and Defence Quarterly?
Authors report an average review time of about 9 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Security and Defence Quarterly based?
Of the 6 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Russia (2), Ukraine (2) and Poland (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Security and Defence Quarterly?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Security and Defence Quarterly is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and Scopus; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Security and Defence Quarterly open access, and what is the APC?
Security and Defence Quarterly is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .