Torture Journal
Last updated ISSN 1018-8185
Torture Journal is published by International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims in psychology. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Torture Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- International Law and Human Rights
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
Key facts
| Publisher | International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1018-8185, 1997-3322 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 389 |
| Publishing since | 1993 |
| Journal website | www.irct.org/media-and-resources/library/torture-jou |
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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