Journal of Social Policy
Last updated ISSN 0047-2794
Journal of Social Policy is published by Cambridge University Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Social Policy concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0047-2794, 1469-7823 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,236 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org/JSP |
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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