Social Choice and Welfare

Aims & Scope

Social Choice and Welfare explores all aspects, both normative and positive, of welfare economics, collective choice, and strategic interaction.

Topics include but are not limited to: preference aggregation, welfare criteria, fairness, justice and equity, rights, inequality and poverty measurement, voting and elections, political games, coalition formation, public goods, mechanism design, networks, matching, optimal taxation, cost-benefit analysis, computational social choice, judgement aggregation, market design, behavioral welfare economics, subjective well-being studies and experimental investigations related to social choice and voting.

As such, the journal is inter-disciplinary and cuts across the boundaries of economics, political science, philosophy, and mathematics.

Articles on choice and order theory that include results that can be applied to the above topics are also included in the journal.

While it emphasizes theory, the journal also publishes empirical work in the subject area reflecting cross-fertilizing between theoretical and empirical research.

Readers will find original research articles, surveys, and book reviews.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.532

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	61

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10932

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	187

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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 Economics, Econometrics and Finance 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.

• Core in a simple coalition formation game

  Citation: 341

  Authors: Suryapratim, Hideo, Tayfun

• Multidimensional poverty indices

  Citation: 332

  Authors: Kai-yuen

• An axiomatic approach to sustainable development

  Citation: 304

  Authors: Graciela

• Voting schemes for which it can be difficult to tell who won the election

  Citation: 296

  Authors: J., C. A., M. A.

• On dividing justly

  Citation: 277

  Authors: M. E., M.

• A crash course in implementation theory

  Citation: 253

  Authors: Matthew O.

• The original Borda count and partial voting

  Citation: 234

  Authors: Peter

• The computational difficulty of manipulating an election

  Citation: 224

  Authors: J. J., C. A., M. A.

• Strategy-proof allocation of indivisible goods

  Citation: 208

  Authors: Lars-Gunnar

• Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society

  Citation: 204

  Authors: Christian, Axel, Justina A. V.

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