American Political Thought
Last updated ISSN 2161-1580
American Political Thought is published by University of Chicago Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in American Political Thought concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Political Theory and Influence
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Race, History, and American Society
- American History and Culture
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Legal and Constitutional Studies
- European Political History Analysis
- Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2161-1580, 2161-1599 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 806 |
| Publishing since | 2012 |
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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