Journal of Conflict Resolution
Last updated ISSN 0022-0027
Journal of Conflict Resolution 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 Journal of Conflict Resolution concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Political Conflict and Governance
- International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- International Development and Aid
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Defense, Military, and Policy Studies
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Game Theory and Applications
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0022-0027, 1552-8766 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,174 |
| Publishing since | 1958 |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal200764/title |
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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