Journals in Social Sciences
Welcome to the Social sciences (includes Archaeology, Education, Geography planning and development, Health, Library and information science, and Linguistics and language) journals area of Elsevier. Elsevier is a leading publisher in the field of social and political, publishing highly respected, peer-reviewed journals.
Open access and subscription publishing in Geography
View the video which explains what open access is and how open access benefits authors. Learn more about the difference between publishing your research via the open access route or subscription.
Open access options
Open access lies at the core of Elsevier’s publishing mission – in fact, today, almost all of our journals offer open access options. That means finding the right open access home for your research is easy.
Whatever route you choose, publishing with Elsevier means your work benefits from the input of expert editors and reviewers. And if you publish gold open access, it is immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download from ScienceDirect. Our gold OA titles also feature in major indexes and databases.
Journal authors resources
Every year, we accept and publish more than 470,000 journal articles. Publishing in an Elsevier journal starts with finding the right journal for your paper. If you already know the journal to which you want to submit, you can enter the title directly in the find a journal search box. Alternatively, you can match the abstract Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet of your article to a journal.
Discounted society personal subscription rates
Reduced personal journal subscriptions are available for various journals to members of:
African Evaluation Association
American Evaluation Association
Association for Educational Research
British Association for International and Comparative Education
Comparative and International Education Society
Eastern Evaluation and Research Society
European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction
International Association for Educational Assessment
Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Education
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