Critical Social Policy
Last updated ISSN 0261-0183
Critical Social Policy 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 Critical Social Policy concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Labor Movements and Unions
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0261-0183, 1461-703X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,311 |
| Publishing since | 1981 |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal2 |
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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