Network Science
Last updated ISSN 2050-1242
Network Science is published by Cambridge University Press in physics and astronomy. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Network Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Legal Cases and Commentary
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Social Capital and Networks
- Social Media and Politics
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Graph theory and applications
- Game Theory and Applications
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2050-1242, 2050-1250 |
| Subject area | Physics and Astronomy |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 476 |
| Publishing since | 2008 |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org/core/journals/network-science |
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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