Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power

Aims & Scope

Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power is an academic, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary publication intended to serve as a dialogue-generating conduit for research on power.

Power is a complex phenomenon and can be defined in multiple ways.

For the purposes of this journal, power implies submission either by consent or by coercion.

This means that, apart from being exercised through violence, power can be exercised through hegemony produced by “common sense”.

However, power still implies exploitation.

Exploitation, via the exercise of hegemonic power, occurs in many domains: global politics, institutional administration, the state, legal systems, social dynamics, family, the workplace, education, economic mechanisms and socioeconomic relations, language, media, communications, and more.

Notebooks is interested in why and how power is exercised, preserved, and contested.

The journal documents processes whereby certain ideas and types of knowledge achieve dominance and are variously expressed via not only coercion but also consent.

Notebooks, being a quintessentially inter-/transdisciplinary enterprise, encourages different methodological approaches and welcomes studies from all disciplines, to include but not limited to: sociology, economics, political studies, psychology, biology, history, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, international relations, criminology, municipal law, and international law.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.145

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	2

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	24917

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	15

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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

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in 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.

• Morbid Symptoms: What Did Gramsci Really Mean?

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Gilbert

• Neoliberalism and the Pandemic

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Alfredo

• Rooted in Resistance: Historical Perspectives on South Africa–Palestine Solidarity – a Conversation with Professor Salim Vally

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Francesco

• Grass Stage as a Method: (Un)Doing Cultural Studies in China

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Diego, Lili

• Non-Human Labour History? Three Short Questions

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Willem

• The 2023 Mobilisation against Pension Reform in France: Some Elements of Analysis

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Sophie

• Surplus Labour in the South at the Current Juncture: A Note

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Praveen

• Rethinking Trajectories of the Intellectual: Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Robert P.

• Subaltern Composition: On the Unrealized 1970 Gela Insurrection

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Andreas

• Labour in Pandemic Capitalism

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Ricardo

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