Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications is a fully open access journal publishing scholarship from across all areas of the humanities, social and behavioural sciences. We encourage the submission of research outputs arising in specific disciplines, or from inter-disciplinary engagement. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications is expecting its first Impact in June 2022. Articles published in the journal were downloaded 379,3186 times in 2021, with an average number of 4,637 downloads per article in the last 12 months after publication. The time from submission to first editorial decision is an average of 41 days. We aspire to be the definitive peer-reviewed outlet for open access research in and between fields within our scope. The journal is published by Springer Nature. It began publication as Palgrave Communications (ISSN 2662-9992) and operated under that title until June 16th 2020. We offer our authors a highly respected home for their research. We strive to uphold the highest editorial and ethical standards – and to provide our authors and readers with a responsive and efficient service. Partnering with our extensive network of expert peer reviewers, our editorial team provides rigorous, objective and constructive peer review, and will support you throughout the publication process. The journal is led by the same ethical and editorial policy guidelines as other journals within the Springer Nature family to ensure that all the research we publish is academically robust. We help your research reach more people and maximise its impact. As an open access journal, we ensure that your work is immediately accessible and highly discoverable across a range of channels. The journal is also indexed in key services ensuring your work is seen by fellow academics. With our very broad scope, we welcome research from all areas and between the humanities and social sciences. We additionally welcome interdisciplinary scholarship, including that arising in, or informed by, the physical, life, clinical and environmental sciences, if it makes a contribution to the advancement of the humanities or social sciences. We also welcome research that seeks to inform policymaking of all types.