Field Methods
Last updated ISSN 1064-8631
Field Methods 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 Field Methods concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques
- Community Health and Development
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1064-8631, 1087-822X, 1087-8513, 1525-822X, 1552-3969 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 885 |
| Publishing since | 1999 |
| Journal website | fmx.sagepub.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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