SocialChangeJournals

Journals About Global Social Change

ADRRI Journals http://journals.adrri.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

Journal of Arts and Social Science http://journals.adrri.org/journals/adrri-journal-of-arts-and-social-sciences/

Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences http://journals.adrri.org/journals/adrri-journal-of-agriculture-and-food-sciences/ and a couple of others

African Studies Quarterly http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/ some articles include "State Collapse and Reconstruction in Central Africa" (1997), "Globalizing Land and Food in Zimbabwe: Implications for Southern Africa" (2003), "Human Rights and State Transition" (2000).

African Statistical Journal http://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/publications/african-statistical-journal/ from the African Development Bank http://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/publications/

Asia-Pacific Development Journal http://www.unescap.org/publications

Aurora http://aurora.icaap.org/index.php/aurora Interviews with Leading Thinkers and Writers

Australian Journal of Labor Economics http://business.curtin.edu.au/our-research/publications/australian-journal-labour-economics/ This is the official Journal of the Australian Society of Labour Economists.

Cogitatio http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/ has these journals

Social Inclusion http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/socialinclusion

Politics and Governance http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/politicsandgovernance

Urban Planning http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/urbanplanning

Contemporary Economic Policy http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291465-7287 A Journal of the Western Economic Association International. Some of the articles are free to read. One recent article - free to read- (January 2014) was Economic Freedom of the World: an Accounting of the Literature. By Joshua Hall and Robert Lawson.

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa has a bunch of journals http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?rubrique79&lang=en A few are:

Africa Development http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?rubrique39 and African Journal of International Affairs http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?rubrique44

This organization also has monographs http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?rubrique65

Economics Bulletin http://www.economicsbulletin.com/ has a number of articles of interest, like Fumitaka Furuoka and Qaiser Munir. Population growth and standard of living: A threshold regression approach. 2011, Vol. 31 No.1, and a volume on Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth (volume 15) with some articles of interest, such as "Communication costs, network externalities, and long-run growth". This journal is from Vanderbilt University. The editor and founding editor are from there.

Finance and Development http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/fda.htm Not just about finance. Includes articles about education, unemployment, etc.

Globality Studies https://gsj.stonybrook.edu/ This journal "is an open access journal committed to interdisciplinary analyses of global history and society, global civilization and local cultures." Last issue was in 2014.

Global-e http://global-ejournal.org/ global-e aims to provide a forum for commentary regarding global events, processes, and issues. Each edition will feature brief essays authored by leading scholars and practitioners, offering provocative reflections on a range of topics with the aim of stimulating discussion among the global studies community.

International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security http://j-sustain.com/index.php This journal "originated from the need to provide an inter-disciplinary forum where the most serious problems affecting a sustainable future for human security can be discussed"

International Social Science Review http://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/issr/ The journal is twice a year, and has a couple of articles, and many book reviews. Some of the articles and book reviews are about social change

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS) http://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 Economic and Financial Modelling http://www.ecofinmodelling.com/ new in 2013. One of the articles in volume 1 is "An examination of the remittance, financial development, and economic growth in developing countries"

Journal of International Commerce and Economics http://www.usitc.gov/journals/index.htm This journal provides "insightful and in-depth analysis on current and emerging issues in international trade. ... The journal relies primarily on USITC staff research." One article from July 2008 is "The Link Between Openness and Long-Run Economic Growth" "We review the most cited empirical analyses of the relationship between international trade and economic growth and more recent empirical analyses of the link between trade and productivity growth. We conclude that there is likely to be a positive relationship between international trade and economic growth."

Journal of Public and International Affairs http://www.princeton.edu/jpia/ by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. Some articles include "Toward the Reunification of Cyprus: Defining and Integrating Reconciliation into the Peace Process" and "Moving Beyond Kosovo: Envisioning A Coherent Theory of Humanitarian Intervention".

Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa http://www.jsd-africa.com/ This journal is "is the official journal for sustainable development in Africa". Editor in Chief is Dr. Valentine Udoh James, Clarion University http://www.clarion.edu/directory/employee-dir/biology-and-geoscience/vjames.html

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/ has a social science section with occasional articles of interest. Articles appear to be free after one year.

Reviews in History http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/ book reviews

Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations http://www.journalofdiplomacy.org/ 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.

Studies of Changing Societies: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Focus http://scsjournal.org/ .

The Wilson Quarterly http://www.wilsonquarterly.com some selected essays, for example, "Africa's Village of Dreams", Jeffrey Sachs’s approach to fix poverty.

World Economic Review http://wer.worldeconomicsassociation.org/ from the World Economic Association. One article from the 2015 issue is "Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World".

Also see Real World Economic Review http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/ One article from Feb 2015 is "Did globalisation stimulate increased inequality?"

DEMOGRAPHY

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific has several journals, including Asia-Pacific Population Journal http://www.unescap.org/publications then search for population

Canadian Studies in Population http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/csp/index many studies of Canada, but also about demography and other countries

Comparative Population Studies http://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS "peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scientific journal on demography and population studies"

Demographic Research http://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"

International Journal of Population Research http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijpr/ publishes papers on demography and population-related issues.

Openpop.org http://www.openpop.org/ not exactly a journal, but "Openpop.org is an academic collaborative blog. Its mission is threefold: firstly, to maximise the economic and social impact of population research through engagement with policymakers, industry, the media and other stakeholders; secondly, to raise the profile of demography and population studies as a discipline; and thirdly, to enhance links between researchers around the world."

Population and Vital Statistics Report: Series A http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/vitstats/default.htm This "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 after 1988." (except the first edition on this page is from 2006).

DIRECTORIES OR COLLECTIONS OF OPEN JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ for a whole bunch of other journals, Some related to social change, some not necessarily related to social change.

INASP Journals online http://www.inasp.info/en/work/journals-online/ The current journals online include sets: Bangladesh Journals Online, Latin America Journals Online, African Journals Online, bunch more. Most of the Bangladesh Journals Online look like medical journals. Many (but not all) of the African Journals Online http://www.ajol.info/ are open text, and are in all areas, like economics, sociology, anthropology, agriculture, biology, chemistry, history. Sri Lanka Journals Online http://www.sljol.info/ has journals like Cities People Places : An International Journal on Urban Environments, and a couple of management journals.

Predatory journals

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this page last updated 12/4/2016

last verified 12/4/2016

Checked the demographic section, 1/8/2018