Social Movement Studies

Aims & Scope

Social Movement Studies is an international and inter-disciplinary journal providing a forum for academic debate and analysis of extra-parliamentary political, cultural and social movements throughout the world.

Social Movement Studies has a broad, inter-disciplinary approach designed to accommodate papers engaging with any theoretical school and which study the origins, development, organisation, values, context and impact of historical and contemporary movements active in all parts of the world.

We understand our inter-disciplinary approach to include both contributions that engage with particular schools of thought relevant to social movements and popular protest and contributions that extend across disciplinary boundaries.

Social Movement Studies aims to publish soundly researched analyses and to re-establish writing as intervention.

From this broad and inclusive perspective we are interested in contributions dealing with social movements, popular protests and networks that support protest.

This includes contributions dealing with but not restricted to: • movements of all types including gender, race, sexuality, indigenous people’s rights, • disability, ecology, peace, youth, age, religion, animal rights and others, • forms of communication, media and representation engaged with social change, including the Internet and cybercultures, • networks of support and broad ’ways of life’ engaged with alternative social systems, • appraisals of popular reactionary movements or populist movements of the ’right’, • subcultures and countercultures, including such things as the place of dance, pleasure or music in resistance, • identities and the construction of collective identities, • relations between protests and social structures, including situating movements in local, regional, national, international and global socio-economic and cultural contexts, • theoretical reflections on the significance of social movements and protest.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.4

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.381

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	49

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2768

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	725

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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 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.

• Rethinking Prefiguration: Alternatives, Micropolitics and Goals in Social Movements

  Citation: 409

  Authors: Luke

• Doing is Believing: Prefiguration as Strategic Practice in the Alterglobalization Movement

  Citation: 301

  Authors: Marianne

• Lifestyle Movements: Exploring the Intersection of Lifestyle and Social Movements

  Citation: 263

  Authors: Ross, Brett, Ellis

• Fear, hope, anger, and guilt in climate activism

  Citation: 231

  Authors: Jochen, Ã…sa

• New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism

  Citation: 225

  Authors: Joost, Michiel, Katrin, Mattias

• Debunking Spontaneity: Spain's 15-M/<i>Indignados</i>as Autonomous Movement

  Citation: 198

  Authors: Cristina

• No water in the oasis: the Chilean Spring of 2019–2020

  Citation: 151

  Authors: Nicolás M., Matías, Rodolfo, Rodrigo M.

• Anatomy of Protest in the Digital Era: A Network Analysis of<i>Twitter</i>and Occupy Wall Street

  Citation: 145

  Authors: Mark

• Veganism as a Cultural Movement: A Relational Approach

  Citation: 145

  Authors: Elizabeth

• ‘I'm not an activist, though I've done a lot of it’: Doing Activism, Being Activist and the ‘Perfect Standard’ in a Contemporary Movement

  Citation: 137

  Authors: Chris

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