Focus and Scope
Recognizing that sociology has much to offer in helping to understanding life in the world today, it is the mission of the Electronic Journal of Sociolgy to bring sociological knowledge to the public in an easily accessible format.
Therefore, EJS presents research papers on topical or critical issues of today that are both scholarly and accessible.
The EJS is thus offered free of charge to individuals, libraries, academic and commercial organizations. It is part of a new publishing paradigm whereby the scholars themselves retain control over all aspects of the scholarly communication process.
Section Policies
Tier One
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Tier Two
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
 Peer Reviewed |
Tier Three
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
The Electronic Journal of Sociology is published in three tiers.
1. Tier one is the traditional refereed tier for the publication of original scholarly research. This tier encompasses the broad range from macro works comparing societies and cultures to theoretically insightful micro case studies and accepts submissions from a wide range of theoretical traditions and methodological approaches.
2. Tier Two is for editorially reviewed articles designed to bring sociology and sociological knowledge to a wider audience, to the general public, to those outside of sociology. Articles written for this tier are written to communicate knowledge to a wider audience, and can include, for example, summaries of a sociological topic, an explanation of how sociological knowledge or research may apply to an issue of today's society today, etc.
3. Tier Three is the editorially reviewed tier for the publication of controversial topics of interest. Topics appropriate for Tier Three include papers on spirituality, entheogens, structures of consciousness, and other topics normally considered outside of the mainstream of scientific respectability. This third tier is not to be used to publish politically suspect (i.e., racist, sexist) or politically biased research.
Although Tier Two and Three are subject to editorial review only, the same standards of empirical and argumentative rigor are expected as are to be found in Tier One.
Publication Frequency
The EJS is published continuously
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
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