RUSI Journal

Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 03071847, 17440378

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SCImago
Q3
WOS
Q4
Impact factor
0.6
SJR
0.203
CiteScore
1.0
Categories
Political Science and International Relations
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1972-2025
journal names
RUSI Journal
RUSI J
Publications
4 887
Citations
4 826
h-index
23
Publications
353
Citations
2 413
Top-3 citing journals
Defence Studies
Defence Studies (109 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 countries
United Kingdom (25 publications)
USA (8 publications)
Italy (7 publications)

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Journal of Strategic Studies
142 citations, 2.94%
Defence Studies
109 citations, 2.26%
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80 citations, 1.66%
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73 citations, 1.51%
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62 citations, 1.28%
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49 citations, 1.02%
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46 citations, 0.95%
British Journal of Politics and International Relations
41 citations, 0.85%
Contemporary Security Policy
38 citations, 0.79%
Defence and Peace Economics
31 citations, 0.64%
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30 citations, 0.62%
International Peacekeeping
30 citations, 0.62%
Critical Studies on Terrorism
29 citations, 0.6%
Australian Journal of International Affairs
28 citations, 0.58%
Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
27 citations, 0.56%
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
24 citations, 0.5%
International Spectator
23 citations, 0.48%
Journal of Global Security Studies
23 citations, 0.48%
Journal of Slavic Military Studies
22 citations, 0.46%
Armed Forces and Society
21 citations, 0.44%
African Security Review
18 citations, 0.37%
European Journal of International Security
17 citations, 0.35%
Security Dialogue
17 citations, 0.35%
Cooperation and Conflict
16 citations, 0.33%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
15 citations, 0.31%
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15 citations, 0.31%
Third World Quarterly
15 citations, 0.31%
Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
14 citations, 0.29%
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13 citations, 0.27%
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Global Policy
12 citations, 0.25%
Sustainability
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12 citations, 0.25%
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12 citations, 0.25%
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12 citations, 0.25%
British Journal of Criminology
10 citations, 0.21%
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10 citations, 0.21%
Global Society
10 citations, 0.21%
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10 citations, 0.21%
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10 citations, 0.21%
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10 citations, 0.21%
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10 citations, 0.21%
International Studies Review
9 citations, 0.19%
International Studies Quarterly
9 citations, 0.19%
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
9 citations, 0.19%
Europe-Asia Studies
9 citations, 0.19%
Civil Wars
8 citations, 0.17%
Critical Military Studies
8 citations, 0.17%
Review of International Studies
8 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea
8 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Military Ethics
8 citations, 0.17%
Geopolitics
8 citations, 0.17%
Meditteranean Politics
8 citations, 0.17%
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region
8 citations, 0.17%
Geo Journal
8 citations, 0.17%
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
8 citations, 0.17%
Strategic Analysis
7 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
7 citations, 0.15%
Pacific Review
7 citations, 0.15%
International Security
7 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
7 citations, 0.15%
Cogent Social Sciences
7 citations, 0.15%
Round Table
7 citations, 0.15%
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7 citations, 0.15%
Conflict Management and Peace Science
7 citations, 0.15%
World Development
7 citations, 0.15%
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6 citations, 0.12%
Contemporary Italian Politics
6 citations, 0.12%
Journal of International Relations and Development
6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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6 citations, 0.12%
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5 citations, 0.1%
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5 citations, 0.1%
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5 citations, 0.1%
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5 citations, 0.1%
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5 citations, 0.1%
Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development
5 citations, 0.1%
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5 citations, 0.1%
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5 citations, 0.1%
Stability
5 citations, 0.1%
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5 citations, 0.1%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
5 citations, 0.1%
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Taylor & Francis
1322 citations, 27.39%
Springer Nature
535 citations, 11.09%
SAGE
279 citations, 5.78%
Cambridge University Press
225 citations, 4.66%
Elsevier
222 citations, 4.6%
Oxford University Press
214 citations, 4.43%
Wiley
151 citations, 3.13%
Emerald
77 citations, 1.6%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
66 citations, 1.37%
MDPI
59 citations, 1.22%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
56 citations, 1.16%
IGI Global
54 citations, 1.12%
Walter de Gruyter
34 citations, 0.7%
Frontiers Media S.A.
24 citations, 0.5%
BMJ
22 citations, 0.46%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
14 citations, 0.29%
Brill
12 citations, 0.25%
MIT Press
11 citations, 0.23%
Duke University Press
10 citations, 0.21%
CAIRN
10 citations, 0.21%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
8 citations, 0.17%
F1000 Research
8 citations, 0.17%
University of California Press
6 citations, 0.12%
University of Chicago Press
6 citations, 0.12%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
6 citations, 0.12%
Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes
6 citations, 0.12%
MGIMO University
6 citations, 0.12%
Hindawi Limited
5 citations, 0.1%
American Psychological Association (APA)
5 citations, 0.1%
Ubiquity Press
5 citations, 0.1%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
5 citations, 0.1%
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
5 citations, 0.1%
War Studies University
5 citations, 0.1%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
4 citations, 0.08%
IOP Publishing
4 citations, 0.08%
Masaryk University Press
4 citations, 0.08%
Vytautas Magnus University
4 citations, 0.08%
Annual Reviews
4 citations, 0.08%
SciELO
4 citations, 0.08%
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
4 citations, 0.08%
Aurora Group, s.r.o
4 citations, 0.08%
World Scientific
3 citations, 0.06%
Edinburgh University Press
3 citations, 0.06%
The Royal Society
3 citations, 0.06%
Kyushu University
3 citations, 0.06%
Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM
3 citations, 0.06%
Instituto Brasileiro de Relacoes Internacionais
3 citations, 0.06%
OpenEdition
3 citations, 0.06%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
3 citations, 0.06%
Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences
3 citations, 0.06%
Lomonosov Moscow State University, School of World Politics
3 citations, 0.06%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
2 citations, 0.04%
EDP Sciences
2 citations, 0.04%
AIP Publishing
2 citations, 0.04%
Ankara University
2 citations, 0.04%
Academy of Management
2 citations, 0.04%
Goteborg University
2 citations, 0.04%
2 citations, 0.04%
Royal College of Psychiatrists
2 citations, 0.04%
Korea Institute for Defense Analyses
2 citations, 0.04%
Hanyang University
2 citations, 0.04%
Association of Military Surgeons of the US
2 citations, 0.04%
China Science Publishing & Media
2 citations, 0.04%
ASME International
2 citations, 0.04%
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
2 citations, 0.04%
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
2 citations, 0.04%
PERSEE Program
2 citations, 0.04%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2 citations, 0.04%
JMIR Publications
2 citations, 0.04%
Publishing House Finance and Credit
2 citations, 0.04%
Federal State University of Education
2 citations, 0.04%
Institute of Research and Community Services Diponegoro University (LPPM UNDIP)
2 citations, 0.04%
Consortium Erudit
2 citations, 0.04%
IntechOpen
2 citations, 0.04%
Berghahn Books
2 citations, 0.04%
Bristol University Press
2 citations, 0.04%
LSE Press
2 citations, 0.04%
SAE International
2 citations, 0.04%
Centr Regionalnikh Issledovanij
2 citations, 0.04%
Research Square Platform LLC
2 citations, 0.04%
Gramota Publishing
2 citations, 0.04%
Saint-Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
2 citations, 0.04%
Pamukkale Universitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitusu Dergisi
2 citations, 0.04%
Non Profit Partnership Polis (Political Studies)
2 citations, 0.04%
Cogitatio
2 citations, 0.04%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
1 citation, 0.02%
Pleiades Publishing
1 citation, 0.02%
Trans Tech Publications
1 citation, 0.02%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1 citation, 0.02%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1 citation, 0.02%
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
1 citation, 0.02%
1 citation, 0.02%
1 citation, 0.02%
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
1 citation, 0.02%
Arizona State University
1 citation, 0.02%
Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
1 citation, 0.02%
Index Copernicus
1 citation, 0.02%
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
1 citation, 0.02%
Edizioni Minerva Medica
1 citation, 0.02%
Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
1 citation, 0.02%
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King's College London
7 publications, 0.14%
Cranfield University
5 publications, 0.1%
London School of Economics and Political Science
3 publications, 0.06%
University of Reading
2 publications, 0.04%
University of Exeter
2 publications, 0.04%
University of Bradford
2 publications, 0.04%
Australian National University
1 publication, 0.02%
University College London
1 publication, 0.02%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 0.02%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.02%
University of the Witwatersrand
1 publication, 0.02%
Kiel University
1 publication, 0.02%
University of East Anglia
1 publication, 0.02%
University of Salford
1 publication, 0.02%
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United Kingdom, 25, 0.51%
United Kingdom
25 publications, 0.51%
USA, 8, 0.16%
USA
8 publications, 0.16%
Italy, 7, 0.14%
Italy
7 publications, 0.14%
Germany, 2, 0.04%
Germany
2 publications, 0.04%
Australia, 2, 0.04%
Australia
2 publications, 0.04%
France, 1, 0.02%
France
1 publication, 0.02%
China, 1, 0.02%
China
1 publication, 0.02%
New Zealand, 1, 0.02%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.02%
Singapore, 1, 0.02%
Singapore
1 publication, 0.02%
Slovenia, 1, 0.02%
Slovenia
1 publication, 0.02%
Philippines, 1, 0.02%
Philippines
1 publication, 0.02%
South Africa, 1, 0.02%
South Africa
1 publication, 0.02%
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