Armed Forces & Society

EDITOR: Patricia M. Shields Texas State University-San Marcos
Book Review Editors: Anthony King Department of Sociology, University of Exeter, UK
William Ruger Texas State University
Jeremy M. Teigen Ramapo College
Description:

According to a recent analysis of the ISI Essential Science IndicatorsSM Web product, Armed Forces & Society recently entered the top 50% of journals in the field of Social Sciences, with 274 papers cited a total of 449 times to date. Click here to read the interview with Editor Patricia Shields, who talks about this journal’s citation record.



Armed Forces & Society is the leading peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and international journal publishing on topics such as

  • Civil Military Relations
  • Military Organizations
  • Use of Force
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Logic and Consequences of War
  • Terrorism
  • Military Leadership & Professionalism
  • Ethics
  • Security
  • Arms Control
  • Peacekeeping
  • Defense Economics
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Reserve Forces and Veterans
  • Representation Issues
  • Family and Health Issues
  • Military History

Armed Forces & Society publishes empirical, theoretically-informed articles, research notes, book reviews, and review essays.  Its articles may adopt an interdisciplinary, comparative, or historical perspective, use qualitative or quantitative methods, and range from policy-relevant to theoretical themes—but they always meet the highest standards of intellectual rigor, scholarly argument, evidence, and readability.





Thomson Reuters 2008 Journal Citation Reports®

2008 Ranking:

71/99 in Political Science
71/99 in Sociology

2008 Impact Factor: 0.417
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Frequency: Quarterly eISSN: 1556-0848 ISSN: 0095-327X
Months of Distribution: January , April , July , October Current Volume: 36 Current Issue: 1
Other Titles In: Military & Strategic Studies  | Peace Studies/Conflict Resolution  | Sociology