Human Rights Quarterly
Last updated ISSN 0275-0392
Human Rights Quarterly is published by Johns Hopkins University Press 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 Human Rights Quarterly concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Human Rights and Development
- International Law and Human Rights
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- International Human Rights and Reproductive Law
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Ombudsman and Human Rights
Key facts
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0275-0392, 1085-794X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,383 |
| Publishing since | 1981 |
| Journal website | www.press.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/ |
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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