Defence Science Review (DSR) is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles, book reviews and interviews with experts in the areas of security and defence.

Topics of the Journal
- state defense - military systems and subsystems
- state defense - non-military systems and subsystems
- state defense - social and economic aspects
- the problems of the theory of war and peace
- defense policy
- defense technologies
- cyberthreats and cybersecurity
- other

All articles are published full in English.

The articles are published in an electronic and the printed version.


DSR is a member of CrossRef – the citation-linking backbone for online publications.


iThenticate – a plagiarism detection service
iThenticate service was developed in partnership with CrossRef. It is the most prominent similarity check service of plagiarism detection include intellectual property protection and document-versus-documents analysis. The editorial board undertake the comprehensive manuscripts screening, aiming to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process.

Abstracting and Indexing
- COPERNICUS (ICI Journals Master List)
- BazTech
- ERIH PLUS
- Directory of Open Access Journals

The frequency of issues – semi-annual


All articles are Open Access, which means they are freely available to read and download. Defence Science Review is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License see here.

The journal does not impose any submission or article-processing charges.