Impact and ranking

Contemporary Security Policy is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index, in Scopus, and ranked by Google Scholar.

Social Science Citation Index (Rank, International Relations)

Rank 2022: 3/96 (Impact Factor: 5.900)
Rank 2021: 4/96 (Impact Factor: 5.719)
Rank 2020: 29/95 (Impact Factor: 2.640)
Rank 2019: 27/95 (Impact Factor: 1.880)
Rank 2018: 33/91 (Impact Factor: 1.574)

Google Scholar (H5-index, Military Studies)

Rank 2018-2022: 5/20*
Rank 2017-2021: 6/20*
Rank 2016-2020: 9/20*
Rank 2015-2019: 12/20*
Rank 2014-2018: 12/20*
Rank 2013-2017: 13/20*
Rank 2012-2016: 13/20*
Rank 2011-2015: 12/20*
Rank 2010-2014: 14/20*

* Google Scholar only officially ranks the top-20 journals in a specific field.

Scopus (CiteScore, Political Science and International Relations)

Rank 2022: 4/652 (CiteScore: 10.0)
Rank 2021: 9/608 (CiteScore: 7.7)
Rank 2020: 32/556 (CiteScore 4.5)
Rank 2019: 29/529 (CiteScore: 4.2)
Rank 2018: 55/521 (CiteScore: 3.3)
Rank 2017: 85/458 (CiteScore: 2.3)
Rank 2016: 114/437 (CiteScore: 1.6)
Rank 2015: 84/406 (CiteScore: 1.8)
Rank 2014: 104/388 (CiteScore: 1.4)
Rank 2013: 120/383 (CiteScore: 1.1)
Rank 2012: 187/368 (CiteScore: 0.6)
Rank 2011: 269/350 (CiteScore: 0.2)

Scimago Journal Rank (SJR weighted citations from Scopus, Political Science and International Relations)

Rank 2022: 31/616 (SJR: 1.328)
Rank 2021: 39/598 (SJR: 0.997)
Rank 2020: 89/573 (SJR: 0.666)
Rank 2019: 56/567 (SJR: 1.002)
Rank 2018: 82/557 (SJR: 0.797)
Rank 2017: 132/487 (SJR: 0.462)
Rank 2016: 155/489 (SJR: 0.431)
Rank 2015: 130/479 (SJR: 0.495)
Rank 2014: 109/463 (SJR: 0.533)
Rank 2013: 106/452 (SJR: 0.515)
Rank 2012: 158/442 (SJR: 0.320)
Rank 2011: 144/427 (SJR: 0.335)