American Behavioral Scientist
Last updated ISSN 0002-7642
American Behavioral Scientist is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in American Behavioral Scientist concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Media and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Social Capital and Networks
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0002-7642, 1552-3381 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 6,184 |
| Publishing since | 1960 |
| Journal website | abs.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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