Science & Society

For science's role in society, see Sociology of science.

Science & Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of Marxist scholarship. It covers economics, philosophy of science, theoretical foundations in the natural sciences, historiography, women's studies, literature, the arts, and other social science disciplines from a Marxist point of view. In addition to its emphasis on social and political theory, the journal also includes first-order historical research.

Science & Society

Discipline	Marxist scholarship
Language	English
Edited by	Julio Huato
Publication details
History	1936–present
Publisher	Sage Publishing
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.1 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Sci. Soc.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0036-8237 (print) 1943-2801 (web)
LCCN	40010163
JSTOR	00368237
OCLC no.	1644619
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive Journal page at publisher's website

The journal was established in 1936 and has appeared quarterly ever since. In January 2025, ownership of the journal transferred from Guilford Press to Sage Publishing. The editor-in-chief is Julio Huato (City University of New York).^[1] David Laibman is editor emeritus.^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences^[3]
• EBSCO databases^[4]
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature^[4]
• Modern Language Association Database^[4]
• ProQuest databases^[4]
• Scopus^[5]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[3]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 1.1.^[6]