Journal of Refugee Studies
Last updated ISSN 0951-6328
Journal of Refugee Studies is published by Oxford University Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,996.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Refugee Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Middle East Politics and Society
- African history and culture analysis
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0951-6328, 1471-6925 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,996 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,433 |
| Publishing since | 1988 |
| Journal website | academic.oup.com/jrs |
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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