Journal of Controversial Ideas
Last updated ISSN 2694-5991
Journal of Controversial Ideas is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 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 Journal of Controversial Ideas concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Academic Freedom and Politics
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Ethics in medical practice
- Theology and Philosophy of Evil
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
Key facts
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2694-5991 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Not recorded |
| Articles published | 110 |
| Publishing since | 2021 |
| Journal website | journalofcontroversialideas.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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