Journal History

2012 The inaugural issue was released. Social Sciences was published as a quarterly journal.
2016 Social Sciences was indexed in Scopus.
Applied double blind peer-review.
2017 Social Sciences established the following section:
-Human Geography and Social Sustainability.
2018 Social Sciences adopted a monthly publication schedule.
Social Sciences received its first CiteScore (2017) of 0.60.
Social Sciences established the following sections:
-Gender Studies;
-Contemporary Politics and Society;
-Social Economics;
-Community and Urban Sociology.
2019 Social Sciences received its CiteScore (2018) of 1.02.
2020 Social Sciences received its CiteScore (2019) of 1.3.
Social Sciences established the following sections:
-International Migration;
-Work, Employment and the Labor Market;
-Family Studies;
-Children and Youth Studies;
-Social Stratification and Inequality.
2021 Social Sciences was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science.
Social Sciences received its CiteScore (2020) of 2.3.
2022 Social Sciences established the following section:
-International Relation.
Social Sciences received its CiteScore (2021) of 3.4.
The year 2022 marked the 10th Anniversary of Social Sciences.
2023 Social Sciences received its first Impact Factor (1.7).
Social Sciences
 received its CiteScore (2022) of 3.2.
Renamed Children and Youth Studies to Childhood and Youth Studies
2024 Social Sciences established the following section:
-Crime and Justice.

Editor-in-Chief

2011–2017 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Martin J. Bull
2018–present Editor-in-Chief: Emeritus Prof. Nigel Parton

Section Editor-in-Chief

2020–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Barbara Fawcett for the Section on Gender Studies
2023–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Peter Hopkins for the Section on Childhood and Youth Studies
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