Social Policy and Administration
Last updated ISSN 0144-5596
Social Policy and Administration is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,330.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Social Policy and Administration concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Social Work Education and Practice
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0144-5596, 1467-9515 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,330 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,314 |
| Publishing since | 1967 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679515 |
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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