Comparative Southeast European Studies
Last updated ISSN 2701-8199
Comparative Southeast European Studies is published by De Gruyter in social sciences. It is open access. There is no article processing charge.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Comparative Southeast European Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Balkans: History, Politics, Society
- Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
- Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition
- European Politics and Security
- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- European history and politics
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Balkan and Eastern European Studies
- European Socioeconomic and Political Studies
- Central European national history
Key facts
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2701-8199, 2701-8202 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | None |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 4,257 |
| Publishing since | 1952 |
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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