Journal of the British Academy
Last updated ISSN 2052-7217
Journal of the British Academy is published by British Academy in social sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of the British Academy concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
Key facts
| Publisher | British Academy |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2052-7217 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 462 |
| Publishing since | 2008 |
| Journal website | www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/journal-briti |
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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