Journals to Watch

Compiled here is a list of journals that students can watch for calls for proposals, special issues, and general submissions.

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Open Access, peer-reviewed

• Art/Research International (FREE)

  • a forum dedicated to exploring and advancing art as and/or within the research process across disciplines and internationally
  • https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/about

• Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

  • focused on the global field of citizen science and other participatory sciences
  • https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/

• Community Empowerment: Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (FREE)

  • results of community service and empowerment with various disciplinary approaches regarding social, cultural, religious, economic, educational, political, environmental and technological fields carried out by researchers, lecturers, students, teachers, religious scholars, government and community groups who carry out community empowerment
  • https://ejournal.uinsgd.ac.id/index.php/commen/index

• Interface: a journal for and about social movements (FREE)

  • contribute to the production of knowledge that can help us gain insights across movements and issues, across continents and cultures, and across political and disciplinary traditions: learning from each other’s struggles
  • https://www.interfacejournal.net/archives/call-for-papers/

• Transformative Social Impact (FREE)

  • multidisciplinary, practitioner-oriented academic journal dedicated to advancing community-engaged scholarship, teaching, and collaborative research for social change
  • https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/transformativesocialimpact-about-the-journal

• Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Research (FREE)

  • the field of community medicine and public health focusing on family health care, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health administration, management of health, national health problems, social medicine, nutrition, and environmental and occupational health, as well as a variety of other fields related to those disciplines
  • https://e-journal.unair.ac.id/jcmphr/index

• Journal of Participatory Research Methods (FREE)

  • focused on the methods, techniques, tools and strategies of participatory research
  • https://jprm.scholasticahq.com/about

• Research for All (FREE)

  • focuses on research that involves universities and communities, services or industries working together
  • https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/r4a/

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Other Journals, peer-reviewed

• Action Research

  • action research, participatory methods, community-engaged scholarship, critical approaches
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/racr20/current

• American Journal of Community Psychology

  • critical community psych, CBPR, decolonial critiques, qualitative/process eval
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15732770

• Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice

  • an online journal for practitioners of community psychology and community improvement
  • https://www.gjcpp.org/en/about.php

• Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology

  • scope is intentionally broad, covering topics from mental and physical health to issues surrounding crime, sustainability, and gender
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991298/homepage/call-for-papers

• Journal of Community Psychology

  • community psychology, CBPR, participatory, critical/community-based methods, qualitative
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15206629

• Journal of Mixed Methods Research

  • mixed-methods CBPR and decolonial epistemologies combining qualitative/quantitative
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mmr

• Qualitative Health Research

  • qualitative methodology, participatory action research, decolonial approaches to health research
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/home/qhr

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More Journals (SCRA Resource List):

https://scra27.org/publications/other-journals-relevant-to-community-psychology/