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.

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.

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

Abstracting and Indexing
- COPERNICUS (ICI Journals Master List)
- BazTech

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.