Social Policy and Society
Last updated ISSN 1474-7464
Social Policy and Society 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 Social Policy and Society concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1474-7464, 1475-3073 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,525 |
| Publishing since | 2002 |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org/SPS |
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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