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Human dimensions journals

The following links provide access to a number of journals that publish papers on human dimensions research within the sustainability, environment and development areas. Some of these journals include interdisciplinary and action-research based material. I begin by

These cover scholarly journals that are available on-line without a financial barrier to access. The main advantage of these journals is that the content is available to users everywhere regardless of affiliation with a subscribing library. This particularly serves to benefit authors - who will potentially see their papers more read, more cited, and better integrated into the structure of science; researchers and practitioners who work on their own or at smaller institutions - where they and/or their library cannot afford journal subscriptions; and private readers in general - who may be interested in the subject matter. Another useful list can also be found from David Sonnenfeld's Society and Environment scholarly journals page:

On-line (or open access) journals

There are two main gateways to open access journals. The Directory of Open Access Journals is a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals. It aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. It currently covers 3769 journals, with 1327 of these being searchable at article level. The other is Open J-gate. This portal indexes articles from 4654 academic, research and industry journals, with 2531 of them being peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

Subscription-based journals

Ranking journals

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