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Science & Society

Marxist academic journal started in 1936

Marxist academic journal started in 1936

FieldValue
titleScience & Society
imageCover of Science and Society Volume XIV, No. 2 (Spring 1950).jpg
captionCover of Spring 1950 issue
abbreviationSci. Soc.
disciplineMarxist scholarship
editorJulio Huato
publisherSage Publishing
history1936–present
frequencyQuarterly
impact1.1
impact-year2024
websitehttps://www.scienceandsociety.com/
link1https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SSO/current
link1-nameOnline access
link2https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/SSO
link2-nameOnline archive
link3https://journals.sagepub.com/home/SSO
link3-nameJournal page at publisher's website
ISSN0036-8237
eISSN1943-2801
JSTOR00368237
LCCN40010163
OCLC1644619

| impact-year = 2024 | link1-name = Online access | link2-name = Online archive | link3-name = Journal page at publisher's website Science & Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of Marxist scholarship. Founded in 1936 and appearing quarterly ever since, it is called "the oldest continuing Marxist publication in the English language." 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, Science & Society also features first-order historical research.

History

After its founding in 1936, the journal assembled as its editors, associates, and contributors a group of leading leftist academics and scientists, including J. D. Bernal, Joseph Needham, Louis Boudin, Ralph Bunche, E. Franklin Frazier, Robert Morss Lovett, Broadus Mitchell, Paul Sweezy, Margaret Schlauch, Edwin Berry Burgum, J. B. S. Haldane, Dirk Struik, and Granville Hicks. But circumstances soon changed, as David Goldway writes:

Science & Society engaged in some notable academic controversies, for example, it took an early stance against the false Soviet biological theory of "Lysenkoism", and also participated in the Brenner debate about the origins of capitalism.

Although the journal's circulation numbers have never been large, averaging about 3,000, it is still widely known and available in most college and university libraries in the U.S. and abroad.

In January 2025, ownership of Science & Society transferred from Guilford Press to Sage Publishing. The editor-in-chief is Julio Huato (City University of New York). David Laibman is editor emeritus.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

  • Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences
  • EBSCO databases
  • International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
  • Modern Language Association Database
  • ProQuest databases
  • Scopus
  • Social Sciences Citation Index According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2024 impact factor of 1.1.

References

References

  1. Goldway, David. (1998). "Science and Society". Oxford University Press.
  2. Goldway, David. (Fall 1986). "Fifty Years of ''Science & Society''". Science & Society.
  3. "History and Prospectus".
  4. {{harvnb. Goldway. 1998
  5. "The Editorial board".
  6. Wendland, Joel. (September–October 2004). "From the Ashes of the Old: An Interview with David Laibman".
  7. "Science & Society". [[Clarivate]].
  8. "Science & Society".
  9. "Source details: Science & Society". [[Elsevier]].
  10. (2025). "2024 Journal Citation Reports". [[Clarivate]].
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