Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by Nature Portfolio. It covers all areas of the social sciences and humanities. It was established in 2014 as Palgrave Communications (ISSN 2055-1045), obtaining its current name in 2020.

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

Discipline	Social sciences, humanities
Language	English
Edited by	Gino D'Oca
Publication details
Former name(s)	Palgrave Communications
History	2015–present
Publisher	Nature Portfolio
Frequency	Continuous
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Impact factor	3.7 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Humanit. Soc. Sci. Commun.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	2662-9992
LCCN	2016260034
OCLC no.	969749138
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index^[1]
• Current Contents/Arts & Humanities^[1]
• Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences^[1]
• Index Islamicus^[2]
• Scopus^[3]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[1]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 3.7.^[4]