The journal was created in 2017 by the decision of the Head of the NBC Protection Troops, Lieutenant General I.A. Kirillov. It was registered by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor). Mass media registration certificate PI № FS 77–69472 dated April 25, 2017.
In 2017, the journal was assigned the International Standard Serial Number ISSN WORK 2587-5728.
Since 2018, the journal has been included in the scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.ru and the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI).
Since 2019, the journal has been included into the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA) and has its own digital identification code (DOI): https://doi.org/10.35825/2587-5728
Since 2022, each publication uploaded to eLIBRARY.RU now has a QR code.
In April 2023, the 27th Scientific Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation signed an agreement with NEICON (National Electronic Information Consortium). It was established by the five largest national organizations (the Russian State Library, the Russian National Library, the VGBIL named after M.I. Rudomino, the Foundation for Information Support of Science, the National Foundation for Support of Book Publishing, Education and New Information Technologies «Pushkin Library»). In 2023, through NEICON, the journal will switch to the domestic platform elpub, developed for scientific journals. This will bring the electronic version of the journal in line with modern international standards and bring the journal to the international level by indexing it in international index and abstract databases.
The impact factor of the journal according to the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) for 2021:
two-year = 0.829;
2 years including citations from all sources = 1.171;
five year old = 0.575
The impact factor of the journal, calculated on the basis of statistical processing of journal publications in the RSCI databases for the period 2017–2021, shows that in terms of its importance, relevance and recognition in the scientific community, the «Journal of the NBC Protection Troops» is ahead of all journals of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation , Ministry of Emergency Situations, and many other scientific journals of the Russian Federation. The scientometric indicators of the journal have a positive trend.
