Journals About Global Social Change
ADRRI Journals https://journals.adrriresearch.org "are international, double blind peer-reviewed, journals published as the official journals of the Africa Development and Resources Research Institute(ADRRI), Ghana. The journals aim to publish papers ... across a broad international coverage of the subject ... which cover all aspects of the environmental, labour economics, economics in general,gender studies, child rights, social, and cultural sustainability" Journals include these, and more.
Journal of Arts and Social Science https://journals.adrriresearch.org/en/index.php/adrrijass/index
Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences https://journals.adrriresearch.org/en/index.php/adrrijafs/index
As of 12/5/2025, there appears to be some difficulties with the web site. Some of the links go to adrri dot org, but that doesn't seem to work.
Africa Development https://journals.codesria.org/index.php/ad/issue/archive published by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. They also have monographs, briefs and working papers. https://codesria.org/other-publications/
African Studies Quarterly https://journals.flvc.org/ASQ/index
Asia and the Global Economy https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/asia-and-the-global-economy
Asian Review of Political Economy https://link.springer.com/journal/44216
Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal https://www.unescap.org/knowledge-products-series/asia-pacific-sustainable-development-journal
Australian Journal of Labor Economics https://ajle.org/index.php/ajle_home
Cogitatio https://www.cogitatiopress.com has these open access journals: Media and Communication, Ocean and Society, Politics and Governance, Social Inclusion, Urban Planning
Contemporary Economic Policy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14657287 A Journal of the Western Economic Association International. Some of the articles are free to read. One recent article - free to read- Business as usual? Unraveling the impact of Brexit on UK-EU business links. Zovanga Kone, Feicheng Wang, Zheng Wang, Zhuo Zhou. First published: 30 July 2024
Finance and Development https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd Not just about finance. Includes articles about education, unemployment, etc.
International Political Science Review (IPSR) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/IPS The IPS is the journal of the International Political Science Association.. Many to some of it's articles are open access.
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS) https://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html an interdisciplinary journal for the exploration and understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation
Journal of Public and International Affairs https://jpia.princeton.edu The JPIA is a student run journal, and is a joint publication of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa https://www.jsd-africa.com
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences https://www.pnas.org has a social science section with occasional articles of interest.
Real World Economic Review https://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/ from the World Economic Association.
Reviews in History https://reviews.history.ac.uk book reviews
Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations https://blogs.shu.edu/journalofdiplomacy/ is the official semiannual publication of the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University
Stanford Social Innovation Review https://ssir.org has many articles of interest.
The Wilson Quarterly https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/issues Essays on various topics.
DEMOGRAPHY
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific has several journals, including Asia-Pacific Population Journal https://www.unescap.org/publications then search for population
Comparative Population Studies https://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS "peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scientific journal on demography and population studies". The journal is published by the German Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).
Demographic Research https://www.demographic-research.org "publishes demographic research and related material from the full range of disciplines that bear on demography"
Genus http://genus.springeropen.com "GENUS is an online peer-reviewed - open access - Journal of Population Sciences published by Springer on behalf of the Sapienza University of Rome"
Population and Vital Statistics Report http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/vitstats/default.htm The Population and Vital Statistics Report presents most recent data on population size (total, male and female) from the latest available census of the population, national official population estimates and the number and rate (births, deaths and infant deaths) for the latest available year within the past 15 years.
DIRECTORIES OR COLLECTIONS OF OPEN JOURNALS
Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org for a whole bunch of other journals, Some related to social change, some not necessarily related to social change.
INASP Journals online https://www.inasp.info/project/journals-online-project The Journals Online (JOLs) project aimed to provide and increase the visibility, accessibility and quality of peer-reviewed journals published in the Global South so that the research outputs produced in these countries can be found, shared and used more effectively.
Open Academic Journals Index https://oaji.net
Elsevier Open Access Journals https://www.elsevier.com/products/journals?query=&page=1&accessType=open-access&sortBy=relevance You can filter by category, for example social science https://www.elsevier.com/products/journals?query=&page=1&accessType=open-access&subjectArea=social-sciences-and-humanities&sortBy=relevance Some related to social change, for example Asia and the Global Economy https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/asia-and-the-global-economy
Jstore has open access journals https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/open-access-journals/
Predatory journals
See the bottom of my page about research journals
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this page last verified and updated 12/6/2025
Notes:
Economics Bulletin https://accessecon.com/pubs/eb/ Something is wrong with this one. When I click on it, it goes somewhere else. But if I copy and paste, it goes to the right place. I'll look into this.