Critical Review
Last updated ISSN 0891-3811
Critical Review 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 Review concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Economic Theory and Policy
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Social Media and Politics
- Critical Theory and Philosophy
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0891-3811, 1933-8007 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,130 |
| Publishing since | 1986 |
| Journal website | www.criticalreview.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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