Contemporary Social Science

Aims & Scope

This interdisciplinary, cross-national journal provides a forum for disseminating and enhancing theoretical, empirical and/or pragmatic research across the social sciences and related disciplines.

Reflecting the objectives of the Academy of Social Sciences, it emphasises the publication of work that engages with issues of major public interest and concern across the world, and highlights the implications of that work for policy and professional practice.

The journal publishes five issues per year, four of which are guest edited on specific themes with a fifth issue which is online only and open access (OA).

This non-themed OA issue welcomes original papers from across the social sciences.

The OA online only issue, published, from 2020 is in recognition of the fact that publishing is moving in a direction where all work is open, accessible, impactful and inclusive.

Please note that authors can still publish on an OA basis in any of the themed issues

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.9
2024	2.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	9623

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	2723

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.602

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	33

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Education, lifelong learning, inequality and financial access: evidence from African countries

  Citation: 410

  Authors: Vanessa Simen

• Values, identity and pro-environmental behaviour

  Citation: 357

  Authors: Birgitta, Niamh, Wokje

• Everyday ethics in community-based participatory research

  Citation: 242

  Authors: Sarah, Andrea, Kathleen, Helen, Peter, Alex, Tessa, Claire, Amelia, Ann, Niamh, Nigel, Ann, Aileen

• Putting practice into policy: reconfiguring questions of consumption and climate change

  Citation: 167

  Authors: Elizabeth

• Covid-19 and the digital revolution

  Citation: 109

  Authors: Linda, Paul, Mihalis, Melita, Prathivadi B., Sonia, Mark, Martin

• Twenty-first century grandparents: global perspectives on changing roles and consequences

  Citation: 107

  Authors: Ann, Anna

• The experience of collective participation: shared identity, relatedness and emotionality

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Fergus, Stephen

• What is social death?

  Citation: 85

  Authors: Jana

• On modelling the influence of group formations in a crowd

  Citation: 85

  Authors: Gerta, Michael, Franz, Dirk, Wolfram

• Investigating the relevance of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in West Africa

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Jeremiah O., Evans S.

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