Journal History

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal

Journal History

A short history of ASSRJ, from its founding in 2013 to the present.

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal was established in 2013 by Scholar Publishing, United Kingdom, to provide an open-access venue for original social-science research from around the world. Publishing under ISSN 2055-0286, the journal has issued content continuously since its foundation.

Throughout this period the journal has maintained a commitment to immediate open access, single-blind peer review and adherence to recognised publication-ethics standards as a member of COPE. Its published work spans sociology and society, political science and public policy, economics and finance, business and management, psychology and behavioural science, education, law and criminology, media and communication, and social-science methodology, drawing on research from a wide range of countries and regions.

A note on our name and identifiers

The journal has published throughout under the title Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal and the abbreviation ASSRJ. Authors and libraries should use ISSN 2055-0286 and the article DOI when citing or cataloguing the journal’s content.