Journal of Critical Realism
Last updated ISSN 1476-7430
Journal of Critical Realism is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Critical Realism concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Critical Realism in Sociology
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Critical Theory and Philosophy
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1476-7430, 1572-5138 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 826 |
| Publishing since | 1999 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjcr20/current |
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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