Social Sciences

Society, Culture and Change

Culture, inequality, governance, migration, communities, and social transformation.

Social SciencesSCC
Society, Culture and ChangeOpen access journal profile
SCC Journal code OA Access model Continuous Publication schedule

Aims and scope

Culture, inequality, governance, migration, communities, and social transformation. The journal welcomes work that is methodologically clear, ethically prepared, accurately cited, and useful to readers working within Social Sciences and related fields.

Scope fit

Culture, inequality, governance, migration, communities, and social transformation. Manuscripts should clearly state the research question, relevance to Social Sciences, and contribution to current evidence or practice.

Audience

Researchers, practitioners, editors, policy teams, educators, and graduate scholars working in Social Sciences and adjacent interdisciplinary areas.

Expected standards

Submissions should include transparent methods, accurate citations, ethics and consent statements where applicable, data availability information, and complete author disclosures.

Article handling

Each manuscript receives scope screening, integrity checks, editorial assessment, suitable peer review when required, revision tracking, licensing review, and publication record preparation.

Accepted article types

Article categories are selected to support original evidence, synthesis, reproducibility, practical implementation, and responsible scholarly discussion.

Original ResearchReview ArticleShort CommunicationMethods ArticleData ArticleCase-based EvidenceEditorial or Commentary

Editorial and peer-review process

1 Scope and completeness screening 2 Ethics, authorship, conflict, and originality checks 3 External review or editorial review according to article type 4 Decision, revision assessment, licensing, metadata, and publication

Editors make publication decisions using reviewer advice, journal scope, reporting quality, research integrity, and the clarity of author responses. Reviewers are asked to comment on originality, methods, interpretation, references, limitations, and ethical presentation.

Author requirements

  • Submit original work that is not under consideration elsewhere.
  • Provide author contribution, funding, conflict of interest, ethics approval, consent, and data availability statements where applicable.
  • Use recognized reporting guidelines for clinical, laboratory, observational, qualitative, computational, and review articles.
  • Disclose use of AI tools when they materially supported writing, analysis, coding, or image preparation.

Open access, licensing, and preservation

Accepted articles are prepared for open access publication with visible licensing, article metadata, citation details, and long-term record management. Article charges, waivers, corrections, complaints, and retractions are handled through the published policies before and after publication.

Published articles and records

Article records for this journal will appear here after the editorial office adds accepted or published article metadata.

Editorial board

Editorial board information for this journal will be added after member confirmation and profile review.