Social Sciences Review
Open Access
Double Blind
Quarterly
25% acceptance rate
Peer Review
Double Blind
OA Type
Diamond OA
Acceptance
25%
Time to Decision
8 weeks
Frequency
Quarterly
CiteScore (2023)
3.4
H-index (2023)
29
About This Journal
Social Sciences Review is a diamond open-access journal providing a rigorous, multidisciplinary forum for research in sociology, political science, social psychology, anthropology, and cultural studies. The journal is committed to methodological diversity, publishing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research of equal standing. As a diamond open-access publication, it charges no article processing fees, ensuring equal participation for authors and readers from all backgrounds.
Aims & Scope
Social Sciences Review publishes rigorous research across the social sciences:
• Sociology: social stratification, inequality, race and ethnicity, gender, and organisations
• Political science: comparative politics, international relations, political behaviour, and public policy
• Social psychology: attitudes, prejudice, social influence, and group dynamics
• Anthropology: cultural anthropology, ethnography, and social change
• Cultural studies: media, popular culture, identity, and representation
• Demography and population studies
• Criminology and deviance
• Migration, diaspora, and transnationalism
Both inductive and deductive research designs are welcome. The journal particularly values theoretically grounded explanations that engage with existing scholarly debates.
• Sociology: social stratification, inequality, race and ethnicity, gender, and organisations
• Political science: comparative politics, international relations, political behaviour, and public policy
• Social psychology: attitudes, prejudice, social influence, and group dynamics
• Anthropology: cultural anthropology, ethnography, and social change
• Cultural studies: media, popular culture, identity, and representation
• Demography and population studies
• Criminology and deviance
• Migration, diaspora, and transnationalism
Both inductive and deductive research designs are welcome. The journal particularly values theoretically grounded explanations that engage with existing scholarly debates.