Daedalus

Aims & Scope

Drawing on the nation’s most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences, as well as the professions and public life, Dædalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, explores the frontiers of knowledge and issues of public importance.

Recent issues have examined Access to Justice; Inequality as a Multidimensional Process; Science and the Legal System; Why Jazz Still Matters; Political Leadership; Ethics, Technology, and War; Russia Beyond Putin; and The Prospects and Limits of Deliberative Democracy.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.7
2024	2.10

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.772

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	71

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	7106

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	702

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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.

• Signature pedagogies in the professions

  Citation: 1173

  Authors: Lee S.

• Intuitive ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues

  Citation: 1082

  Authors: Jonathan, Craig

• A Contextual Approach to Privacy Online

  Citation: 440

  Authors: Helen

• Incarceration & social inequality

  Citation: 356

  Authors: Bruce, Becky

• Bootstrapping & the origin of concepts

  Citation: 321

  Authors: Susan

• Class, race & hyperincarceration in revanchist America

  Citation: 206

  Authors: Loïc

• Punishment's place: the local concentration of mass incarceration

  Citation: 205

  Authors: Robert J., Charles

• Global Population Aging: Facts, Challenges, Solutions & Perspectives

  Citation: 193

  Authors: David E., David, Alyssa

• Twelve Key Findings in Deliberative Democracy Research

  Citation: 183

  Authors: Nicole, John S., Selen A., Carolyn M., Simon

• Human universals, human nature & human culture

  Citation: 139

  Authors: Donald E.

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