Top 20 Social Sciences Journals

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....

Sociological Bulletin, a journal of the Indian Sociological Society, was launched on 1 March 1952. The credit for founding both the Indian Sociological Society and the Sociological Bulletin goes to G. S. Ghurye, the then Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Bombay. From 2021, the journal has become a quarterly refereed journal. The journal is a powerful platform for sociologists and social scientists to share their research with the professional fraternity. Non-sociologists and non-members of the Indian Sociological Society are not prohibited from their contributions to the journal. Owing to its liberal policy of accepting contributions from all social scientists and from any region of the world, it is pertinent to inf...

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....

Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine (JFSM), the academic journal of the Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in China, is a peer-reviewed online journal with quarterly print on demand compilation of issues published. The journal’s full text is available online at www.jfsmonline.com. 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 and even for color reproduction of photographs....

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....

Journal of Social Computing (JSC) (Published by Tsinghua University Press) is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal which aims to publish high-quality, original research that pushes the boundaries of thinking, findings, and designs at the dynamic interface of social interaction and computation. This will include research in (1) computational social science—the use of computation to learn from the explosion of social data becoming available today; (2) complex social systems or the analysis of how dynamic, evolving social collectives constitute emergent computers to solve their own problems; and (3) human computer interaction whereby machines and persons recur...

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....

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....

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....

The overarching purpose of the journal is to create a community of scholars and promote scholarship in the field of Rural Management. It does so by acting as a vehicle that promotes scholarship and disseminates knowledge. Anything rural is of interest; however, the journal has an avowed bias towards matters of policy, institutions, organizations and practices. The journal publishes conceptual, empirical and review papers in the form of research articles, reports of research in progress, analyses of current and topical practice, policy issues relating to rural management, field notes, and book reviews....

Resonance is a journal of science education published by the Indian Academy of Sciences. It is directed to students and teachers at the undergraduate level, though some articles also appeal to the graduate level. This journal features articles on physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Articles fall into several categories: general articles, series, concise article-in-boxes, classroom pieces, nature-watch pieces, research news, book reviews, and information and announcements useful to students and teachers....

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....

The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) strives to become the foremost international forum for practitioners, teachers, researchers and policymakers to share their knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of information systems in developing countries....

The Journal of South Asian Development, a refereed publication, publishes research articles and scholarly comment relating to all facets of development in South Asia. The journal is multi-disciplinary, innovative and international in its approach and includes theoretical and conceptual articles as well as empirical studies covering both historical and contemporary issues/events. While the journal is primarily a social science journal (covering politics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, economics), we also consider papers from the natural and environmental sciences, geography, history and other disciplines that deal with development issues in order to provide comprehensive and balanced scholarship....

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....

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....