About Societies
Aims
Societies (ISSN 2075-4698) is a peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary scholarly open access journal that brings together the social sciences and humanities to enhance our scientific understanding of the social realm, from ancient times to the future. It publishes original research articles, reviews, commentaries, and short notes that are relevant to the study of past, present and emerging societies.
Subject Areas
- social constructions of gender, race and class
- language and culture
- work and economic systems
- social, political and legal structures
- education, health and social welfare
- community life and civil society
- urbanization and industrialization
- science and technology
- identity, citizenship and the state
- diasporas and transnational dispersions
- religion and spirituality
- death, dying and the afterlife
- crime and criminality
- war, terrorism and genocide
- environmental degradation, climate change, pandemics
- social order, disorder and utopian societies
- globalization
MDPI Publication Ethics Statement
Societies is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI enforces a rigorous peer-review process that adopts strict ethical policies and standards to ensure that we contribute high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, etc., occasionally arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy.
Book Reviews
Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland. Received books will be listed first as "Books Received", then offered to the scholarly community for preparing reviews.
Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Societies will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License. MDPI will insert following note at the end of the published text:
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