List of social science journals

The following is a partial list of social science journals, including history and area studies. There are thousands of academic journals covering the social sciences in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past. The list given here is far from exhaustive, and contains the most influential, currently publishing journals in each field. As a rule of thumb, each field should be represented by at most ten positions, chosen by their impact factors and other ratings. There are many important academic magazines that are not true peer-reviewed journals. They are not listed here.

For a list of periodicals in the physical, life, and applied sciences, see List of scientific journals.

Anthropology

 * American Anthropologist
 * Chungara
 * Culture, Theory and Critique
 * Cultural Survival
 * Current Anthropology
 * Evolutionary Anthropology
 * Social Evolution & History
 * Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of the Anthropological and Related Sciences
 * Terrain

Archaeology

 * African Archaeological Review
 * American Antiquity
 * American Journal of Archaeology
 * Ancient TL
 * Antiquity
 * Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy
 * International Journal of South American Archaeology
 * Journal of Archaeological Science
 * Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
 * Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
 * Latin American Antiquity

Area studies

 * Abbia: Cameroon Cultural Review
 * American Journal of Chinese Studies
 * American Quarterly
 * Azure
 * Central Asia Monitor
 * Central Asian Review
 * Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
 * Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
 * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
 * Forum Italicum
 * Iranian Studies Journal
 * Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt
 * Journal of Asian Studies
 * Journal of Japanese Studies
 * Journal of Latin American Studies
 * Journal of Modern Greek Studies
 * Journal of Near Eastern Studies
 * Monumenta Nipponica
 * Norte Grande Geography Journal
 * Pacific Northwest Quarterly
 * Palestine-Israel Journal
 * Problems of Post-Communism
 * Revista Universum
 * Sarmatian Review
 * SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research

Business, management & organization theory

 * Academy of Management Journal
 * Academy of Management Review
 * Administrative Science Quarterly
 * Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
 * Business Process Management Journal
 * International Marketing Review
 * International Small Business Journal
 * Journal of Management
 * Journal of Media Business Studies
 * Management Science
 * Measuring Business Excellence
 * Organization Development Journal
 * Organization Science
 * Organization Studies
 * Strategic Management Journal

Communication

 * Communication Monographs
 * Communication Research
 * Communication Theory
 * Human Communication Research
 * Journal of Communication

Demography

 * Canadian Studies in Population
 * Demography
 * International Migration Review
 * Journal of Population Economics
 * Population and Development Review

Economics

 * American Economic Review
 * Economic Journal
 * Journal of Economic Literature
 * Journal of Financial Economics
 * Journal of Political Economy
 * Quarterly Journal of Economics

Education and educational technology

 * American Educational Research Journal
 * American Journal of Education
 * College Teaching
 * Educational Administration Quarterly
 * Educational Researcher
 * Educational Technology & Society
 * Harvard Educational Review
 * Journal of Higher Education
 * Research in Learning Technology
 * Review of Educational Research
 * Studies in Higher Education
 * Teachers College Record

Environmental social science

 * Ecology and Society
 * Environmental Research Letters
 * Environmental Values
 * Journal of Political Ecology
 * Nature and Culture
 * Organization & Environment
 * Population and Environment

Geography

 * Antipode
 * Area
 * The Geographical Journal
 * Journal of Biogeography
 * Journal of Quaternary Science
 * Polar Research
 * The Professional Geographer
 * Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

History

 * American Historical Review
 * Journal of American History
 * Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt
 * Past & Present

Interdisciplinary social science

 * Asian Journal of Social Science
 * Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian
 * Information & Media
 * Methodology
 * Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities
 * The Social Science Journal
 * Surveillance & Society
 * Social Science Research

Law

 * California Law Review
 * Harvard Law Review
 * Law & Critique
 * Michigan Law Review
 * Stanford Law Review
 * Yale Law Journal

Medicine

 * Social Science & Medicine

Planning

 * Environment and Planning
 * Journal of Planning Education and Research
 * Journal of Planning History
 * Journal of Planning Literature
 * Planning Theory
 * Urban Geography

Political science

 * American Journal of Political Science
 * American Political Science Review
 * Annual Review of Political Science
 * Comparative Politics
 * Journal of Conflict Resolution
 * Journal of Democracy
 * Journal of Politics & Society
 * Political Geography

Semiotics

 * The American Journal of Semiotics
 * Semiotica
 * Sign Systems Studies

Social policy

 * Critical Social Policy
 * Global Social Policy
 * International Journal of Social Welfare
 * Journal of Disability Policy Studies
 * Journal of European Social Policy
 * Social Choice and Welfare

Social work

 * Children & Society
 * Clinical Social Work Journal
 * International Social Work
 * Journal of Social Work
 * Qualitative Social Work
 * Research on Social Work Practice
 * Social Service Review
 * Social Work in Public Health

Sociology

 * American Journal of Sociology
 * American Sociological Review
 * Annual Review of Sociology
 * British Journal of Sociology
 * Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
 * Social Forces

Tourism

 * International Journal of Tourism Sciences

Women's studies

 * Asian Women
 * Gender & Society
 * Journal of Women's Health
 * Psychology of Women Quarterly
 * Sex Roles
 * Women & Health
 * Women's Health Issues