Critical Policy Studies
Last updated ISSN 1946-0171
Critical Policy Studies is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Critical Policy Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Social Media and Politics
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1946-0171, 1946-018X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 848 |
| Publishing since | 2007 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcps20/current |
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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