First Monday
Last updated ISSN 1396-0458
First Monday is published by University of Illinois at Chicago in social sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in First Monday concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Media and Politics
- Digital Games and Media
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Media Studies and Communication
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Illinois at Chicago |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1396-0458, 1396-0466 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,837 |
| Publishing since | 1969 |
| Journal website | www.firstmonday.org |
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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