Daedalus
Last updated ISSN 0011-5266
Daedalus is published by American Academy of Arts and Sciences 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 Daedalus concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Race, History, and American Society
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
- Social Media and Politics
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Academic Freedom and Politics
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
Key facts
| Publisher | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0011-5266, 1548-6192 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,705 |
| Publishing since | 1960 |
| Journal website | www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/daed |
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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