Surveillance & Society
Last updated ISSN 1477-7487
Surveillance & Society is published by Surveillance Studies Network in social sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Surveillance & Society concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Global Security and Public Health
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Media and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Key facts
| Publisher | Surveillance Studies Network |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1477-7487 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 1,180 |
| Publishing since | 1969 |
| Journal website | ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-so |
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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