Top 20 Social Sciences Journals

The Administrative Science Quarterly - ASQ logo reads, "Dedicated to advancing the understanding of administration through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis." We interpret "administration" in the broadest possible sense to include all of the processes involved in creating, coordinating, and transforming the social settings in which it occurs. ASQ seeks to advance the understanding of management, organizations, and organizing in a wide variety of contexts, including teams, business and nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and markets....

The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR ) series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Often called “the voice of CDC,” the MMWR  series is the agency’s primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. MMWR  readership predominantly consists of physicians, nurses, public health practitioners, epidemiologists and other scientists, researchers, educators, and laboratorians....

Energy and Built Environment (EBE) is an international journal that disseminates original research articles on energy harvesting and utilization in the built environment. The aim is to present new research results that are focused on promoting energy efficiency, clean energy utilization, and environment quality in the built environment, which constitutes buildings and transportation....

The IJSMC is an international open-access peer-reviewed journal of interdisciplinary character. The journal covers cutting-edge potential topics ranging from the quantitative aspects of science and the evaluation of research systems and policies to science communication and publishing. The IJSMC accepts theoretical and empirical contributions in several topics (but not limited to), including scientometrics, bibliometrics, informetrics, webometrics, altmetrics, research evaluation, patentometrics, sociology of science, scholarly publishing, and science communication....

The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR ) series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Often called “the voice of CDC,” the MMWR  series is the agency’s primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. MMWR  readership predominantly consists of physicians, nurses, public health practitioners, epidemiologists and other scientists, researchers, educators, and laboratorians....

AWARI is an open-access peer-reviewed journal of an international character aimed at publishing studies related to social network analysis. Authors are encouraged to submit studies coming from different fields like sociology, computer science, political science, information science, economics, communication, and management, among others....

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, is a peer-reviewed online journal with continuous print on demand compilation of issues published. The journal’s full text is available online at https://www.jehp.net. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository....

Geography and Sustainability aims to serve as the focal point for developing, coordinating and implementing interdisciplinary research and education to promote sustainable development through an integrated geography perspective. The journal encourages wider analysis and innovative thinking about global and regional sustainability by bridging and synthesising natural and human sciences....

Digital Communications and Networks publishes rigorously peer-reviewed, high quality original articles and authoritative reviews that focus on communication systems and networks. All articles are published fully Open Access on ScienceDirect. The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Scopus. Conference papers may be accepted if they have been substantially extended. Special issues of the journal that focus on a particular aspect of the field are also occasionally published....

Journal of Mid-life Health is peer-reviewed journal published on behalf of the Indian Menopause Society. The Journal is published Quarterly. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional/subject based repository. The journal does not charge for submission, processing or publication of manuscripts as well as for color reproduction of photographs....

South Asia Research is an international, multidisciplinary forum which covers the history, politics, law, economics, sociology, visual culture, languages and literature of all countries in South Asia. We publish both work of a more theoretical nature as well as detailed empirical studies by emerging and established scholars from around the world....

Global Transitions is a freely accessible platform hosting up-to-date information on the science, application and impact of major themes that will shape our future. We welcome actionable knowledge oriented to the health and wellbeing of humanity and our planet....

The journal will cover empirical and theoretical contributions studies related to mental health and addition, social support, socioeconomic inequality, behavior change techniques, health policy and clinical practice. The journal considers research across a range of disciplines including Public Health, Nursing, Anthropology, the Caring Sciences, Primary Care, Global Health, Community Medicine, health psychology, health policy, sociology, health economics and health services management....

Communications in Transportation Research publishes peer-reviewed high-quality research representing important advances of significance to emerging transport systems. The mission is to provide fair, fast, and expert peer review to authors and insightful theories, impactful advances, and interesting discoveries to readers. We welcome submissions of significant and general topics, of inter-disciplinary nature (transport, civil, control, artificial intelligence, social science, psychological science, medical services, etc.), of complex and inter-related system of systems, of strong evidence of data strength, of visionary analysis and forecasts towards the way forward, and of potentially implementable and utilizable policies/practices....

American Journal of Sociology - Established in 1895 as the first  U.S. scholarly journal in its field, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences. The journal presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods. AJS strives to speak to the general sociological reader and is open to sociologically informed contributions from anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists. AJS prizes research that offers new ways of understanding the social. AJS offers a substantial book review section that identifies the most salient work of both emerging and endu...

The Social Science Journal (ISSN- 0362-3319) is the official journal of the Western Social Science Association. The principal purpose of the journal is to publish scholarly work in the social sciences. The research that is published may take a theoretical or speculative model as well as statistical and mathematical. Contributions are welcome from all fields which have relevant and insightful comments to make about the social sciences. The journal also includes a Research Note section which is devoted to supporting scholarly research that is in progress. The journal has a well-established book review section which reflects the academic and intellectual diversity within the WSSA. While The Social Science Journal is the pub...

The aims and scope of the Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing are to help towards advancement, dissemination and application of the knowledge of Remote Sensing technology, which is deemed to include photo interpretation, photogrammetry, aerial photography, image processing, and other related technologies in the field of survey, planning and management of natural resources and other areas of application where the technology is considered to be appropriate, to promote interaction among all persons, bodies, institutions (private and/or state-owned) and industries interested in achieving advancement, dissemination and application of the technology, to encourage and undertake research in remote sensing and related technologies...

This journal "Journal of intellectual property rights" was started in 1996 keeping in view the importance of intellectual property rights and their protection. The objective of the journal is two-fold: firstly, to enhance communication between policymakers, organizational agents, academics, and managers on the critical understanding and research on intellectual property; secondly, to promote the development of the newly cultivated research field. The journal publishes contributed/invited articles, case studies and patent reviews; technical notes on current IPR issues; literature review; world literature on IPR; national and international IPR news, book reviews, and conference reports.  ...

Higher Education for the Future is a bi-annual peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal that is designed to shape the new generation of higher education based on national and international experience. It seeks to address a wide spectrum of issues including policy, pedagogy, and research in higher education. Original and scholarly papers in English in all conventional and emerging disciplines are invited....

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration is a scholarly double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting the study, research and enhancement of public governance, policy, administration, and management in and beyond Asia and the Pacific. It welcomes contributions that address theory and practice from country, comparative and thematic perspectives. The contributions can be: free-standing articles (5,000-7,000 words) articles (5,000-7,000 words) in proposed or commissioned special issues or symposia discussions of new developments and trends (3,000-4,000 words) research notes (2,000-3,000 words) The Journal’s target audience comprises scholars, polic...