Social Forces
Last updated ISSN 0037-7732
Social Forces is published by Oxford University Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,152.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Social Forces concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Race, History, and American Society
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0037-7732, 1534-7605 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,152 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 23,486 |
| Publishing since | 1800 |
| Journal website | sf.oxfordjournals.org/ |
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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