The Social Science Journal
Last updated ISSN 0362-3319
The Social Science Journal is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Social Science Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Media and Politics
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies
- Social Capital and Networks
- Legal and Regulatory Analysis
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0362-3319, 1873-5355 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,110 |
| Publishing since | 1975 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/ussj20/current |
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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