Journal of Security Sciences is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published twice a year (May and November). In 2012, the Journal of Security Sciences started to be published as open access within Beytepe Gendarmerie Schools Command, and all publication rights of the Journal of Security Sciences were transferred to the Directorate of the Institute of Security Sciences, which was established within the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Security Academy in 2016.

Since 2012, the Journal of Security Sciences, which has gained the status of an international refereed journal, is currently scanned in EBSCO Publishing - Academic Complete Search, Akademia Social Sciences Index (ASOS), Social Sciences Citation Index (SOBIAD) and ULAKBIM TR Index and DOI numbers are obtained for the articles. In addition, studies are ongoing for the journal to be scanned within the scope of Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
The opinions, arguments, theses and thoughts in the articles are the personal views of the authors and in no way express the views of the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy or the Institute of Security Sciences.

The Journal of Security Sciences accepts articles in English as well as Turkish. Within the scope of Social, Humanities and Administrative Sciences, in addition to articles in the fields of security and strategy; International Relations, Political Science, Economic and Administrative Sciences, History, Criminal Studies, Law, International Relations, Public Relations, Forensic Sciences, Communication, Psychology, Criminology, Anthropology, Sociology, Public Diplomacy, Intelligence, Public Administration, Criminalistics, Management and Organisation, Quantitative Methods are also evaluated by the editorial board.

Journal of Security Sciences adopts an open access policy in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration. The archive of the journal can be accessed free of charge at https://www.jsga.edu.tr/gbd and https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/gbd. The authors also retain the copyright of their published works. The content of our journal is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International Licence. Accordingly, it is possible for third parties to share and adapt the content for non-commercial purposes, provided that proper attribution is given.