List of Social Sciences Journals

Discover 6179 in social sciences journals for 2025. Explore both paid and free options with detailed metrics, quartiles, impact factors, submission guidelines, and access types to elevate your research and publishing success.

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ISSN: 1816-8396 | eISSN: 2305-7963

Cessation. African Natural History is a new research journal published by Iziko Museums of Cape Town. It takes the place of the Annals of the South Af...

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ISSN: 1744-2532 | eISSN: 2516-5305

African Renaissance is a quarterly, high quality international journal published consistently since 2004, making it one of the longest surviving schol...

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ISSN: 0856-0056 | eISSN: 1821-889X

Published since 1971, The African Review hosts intellectual debates and discussions on African politics, development and international affairs. It wel...

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ISSN: 1939-2206 | eISSN: 1939-2214

African Security explores fresh approaches to understanding Africa’s conflicts and security concerns. Its investigation of competing analytical appr...

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ISSN: 1024-6029 | eISSN: 2154-0128

The African Security Review is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes articles on issues across the broad spectrum of human security in Africa. Th...

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ISSN: 0002-0184 | eISSN: 1469-2872

African Studies is an international interdisciplinary journal which aims to publish high quality conceptual and empirical writing relevant to Africa....

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ISSN: 0002-0206 | eISSN: 1555-2462

African Studies Review (ASR) is the flagship scholarly journal of the African Studies Association (USA). The ASR publishes the highest quality African...

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ISSN: 0065-4124

Africana Linguistica welcomes original contributions in descriptive linguistics or historical linguistics and linguistic typology on aspects such as p...

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ISSN: 0772-084X | eISSN: 2031-356X

Afrika Focus promotes critical and worldly debates with Africa at the centre. It accepts scholarly contributions dealing with current trends and new d...

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ISSN: 0002-0478

Créée en 1962, Afrique contemporaine est une revue scientifique pluridisciplinaire à comité de lecture dédiée à l’étude des dynamiques afric...

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ISSN: 1048-9959

The AFTE Journal is the official publication of the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE) and is dedicated to the sharing of informati...

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