European Security

Aims & Scope

European Security is a forum for discussing challenges and approaches to security within the region as well as for Europe in a global context.

The journal seeks to publish critical analyses of policies and developments in European institutions and member states, their relations with European and other immediate neighbours, and their relations with the wider world, including other regional and international organisations.

It is also interested in non-European perspectives on Europe in a global context.

Whilst the journal is particularly interested in stimulating debate between varied theoretical approaches, it strongly encourages policy debates on topical issues that combine conceptual and empirical analyses.

Within this broad framework the journal invites submissions in the following areas: • Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of security in Europe • Comparative and in-depth studies of European states and national defence policies • European organisations as security providers • Conflict prevention, peacekeeping, conflict resolution, and crisis management as reactions to regional insecurity • Security and geo-politics of Europe and the wider world

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.6
2024	2.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.342

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	38

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2923

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	488

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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.

• EU border security and migration into the European Union: FRONTEX and securitisation through practices

  Citation: 187

  Authors: Sarah

• Resilience as the new EU foreign policy paradigm: a pragmatist turn?

  Citation: 167

  Authors: Ana E.

• Introduction to 2018 special issue of <i>European Security</i>: “ontological (in)security in the European Union”

  Citation: 90

  Authors: Catarina, Ian, Jennifer

• Internal and External Aspects of Security

  Citation: 87

  Authors: Didier

• Brexit, existential anxiety and ontological (in)security

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Christopher S.

• Digital/sovereignty and European security integration: an introduction

  Citation: 73

  Authors: Rocco, Helena, Denis

• Anxious community: EU as (in)security community

  Citation: 69

  Authors: Jennifer

• European security as practice: EU–NATO communities of practice in the making?

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Nina

• Humanitarian impacts of economic sanctions on Iran and Syria

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Erica S.

• Blurring the Dividing Line: The Convergence of Internal and External Security in Western Europe

  Citation: 63

  Authors: Derek

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