Social Science & Medicine
Last updated ISSN 0277-9536
Social Science & Medicine is published by Elsevier BV in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,800.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Social Science & Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Global Health Care Issues
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Homelessness and Social Issues
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0277-9536, 1873-5347 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,800 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 23,674 |
| Publishing since | 1927 |
| Journal website | www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_hom |
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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