Critical Studies on Security

Aims & Scope

Security is one of the defining features of our, or any, time.

Collectively we seek security, value security, desire security, while at the same time often being troubled by the actions that are taken in the name of our security.

Critical Studies on Security is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of ‘security’ in and through social critique.

The journal aims to publish theoretically informed scholarship, which engages with the practice and politics of security.

We welcome articles from or across the range of disciplines, and from any of the critical social theoretical positions.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.3
2024	1.80

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8524

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	148

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.671

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	26

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Climate migration as an adaption strategy: de-securitizing climate-induced migration or making the unruly governable?

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Giovanni

• Algorithmic warfare and the reinvention of accuracy

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Lucy

• The dance of militarisation: a feminist security studies take on ‘the political’

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Linda

• Securitizing ‘climate refugees’: the futurology of climate-induced migration

  Citation: 64

  Authors: Andrew, Chris, Delf

• Towards a Beirut School of critical security studies

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Samer, Omar S., Waleed, Nicole Sunday, Coralie, Jamil, Sami

• Security cosmopolitanism

  Citation: 51

  Authors: Anthony

• Uninhibited violence: race and the securitization of immigration

  Citation: 48

  Authors: David, Shaira

• The gendered and racialized politics of risk analysis. The case of Frontex

  Citation: 45

  Authors: Saskia, Julia

• No emancipatory alternative, no critical security studies

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Nik, David

• Children, childhoods, and security studies: an introduction

  Citation: 43

  Authors: J. Marshall

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