Social Problems
Last updated ISSN 0037-7791
Social Problems is published by Oxford University Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,073.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Social Problems concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Race, History, and American Society
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0037-7791, 1533-8533 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,073 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 6,862 |
| Publishing since | 1953 |
| Journal website | socpro.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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