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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American Educational Research Journal
ISSN: 0002-8312 | eISSN: 1935-1011
The American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) is the flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association, featuring articles that adv...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Ethnologist
ISSN: 0094-0496 | eISSN: 1548-1425
American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. The journal’s articles connect ethnographic...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Foreign Policy Interests
ISSN: 1080-3920 | eISSN: 1533-2128
Cessation. As the journal of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy ( NCAFP), American Foreign Policy Interests has been publishing provoca...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Heritage
ISSN: 0002-8738
Recently relaunched, American Heritage is the oldest, most widely known and respected popular U.S. history magazine. Central to its mission is making...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Historical Review
ISSN: 0002-8762 | eISSN: 1937-5239
The American Historical Association (AHA) was founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889 to serve the interests of the entire discipline of his...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Imago
ISSN: 0065-860X | eISSN: 1085-7931
American Imago was founded by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs in the U.S. in 1939 as the successor to Imago, founded by Freud, Sachs, and Otto Rank in V...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
ISSN: 0893-5394 | eISSN: 1533-7731
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research is a professionally refereed scientific journal. It contains empirical research, program eval...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Indian Culture and Research Journal
ISSN: 0161-6463
The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, the premiere journal in Native American studies, publishes book reviews, literature, and original sc...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Jewish History
ISSN: 0164-0178 | eISSN: 1086-3141
Bringing readers all the richness and complexity of Jewish life in America through cutting-edge historical and interdisciplinary research, American Je...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Archaeology
ISSN: 0002-9114
The American Journal of Archaeology (ISSN 0002-9114; E-ISSN 1939-828X), the journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, was founded in 1885 an...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology
| eISSN: 2692-7691
he American Journal of Biological Anthropology (AJBA) is the official journal of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA). The Jo...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Community Psychology
ISSN: 0091-0562 | eISSN: 1573-2770
The American Journal of Community Psychology publishes original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research; theoretical papers; empirical r...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Comparative Law
ISSN: 0002-919X
The American Journal of Comparative Law was founded in 1952. As the official journal of the American Society of Comparative Law, it publishes four iss...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Criminal Justice
ISSN: 1066-2316 | eISSN: 1936-1351
The American Journal of Criminal Justice, the official journal of the Southern Criminal Justice Association, is a peer reviewed publication; manuscrip...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Cultural Sociology
ISSN: 2049-7113 | eISSN: 2049-7121
From modernity's onset, social theorists have been announcing the death of meaning, at the hands of market forces, impersonal power, scientific expert...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Distance Education
ISSN: 0892-3647 | eISSN: 1538-9286
The American Journal of Distance Education (AJDE) is internationally recognized as the journal of record of research and scholarship in the field of A...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology
ISSN: 0002-9246 | eISSN: 1536-7150
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to encourage the dev...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Education
ISSN: 0195-6744 | eISSN: 1549-6511
Founded as School Review in 1893, the American Journal of Education acquired its present name in November 1979. The Journal seeks to bridge and integr...
View Journal DetailsAmerican Journal of Evaluation
ISSN: 1098-2140
The American Journal of Evaluation (AJE) publishes original papers about the methods, theory, practice, and findings of evaluation. The general goal o...
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