Social Justice Research publishes original papers that have broad implications for social scientists investigating the origins, structures, and consequences of justice in human affairs.

The journal encompasses justice-related research work using traditional and novel approaches, and spanning the social sciences and beyond: psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, social policy research, political science, law, management science, and others.

This multidisciplinary approach advances the integration of diverse social science perspectives. In addition to original research papers - theoretical, empirical, and methodological - the journal publishes book reviews and, from time to time, special thematic issues.

Social Justice Research is the official journal of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR)

2-Year Impact Factor: 1.000 (2015)
5-Year Impact Factor: 1.314 (2015)

49 out of 62 on the Psychology, Social list
65 out of 142 on the Sociology list

SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2015:  0.692

224 out of 951 on the Sociology and Political Science list

46 out of 288 on the Anthropology list

90 out of 505 on the Law list

SJR is a measure of the journal's relative impact in its field, based on its number of citations and number of articles per publication year.

Impact per Publication (IPP) 2014:   0.942

The IPP measures the ratio of citations per article published in the three previous years.

Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2014:  0.513

The SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa.