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Quarterly journals

  • Foreign Policy Analysis (journal)How do governments actually decide their foreign policy? The journal Foreign Policy Analysis asks exactly that.
  • International Studies QuarterlyWho decides what International Studies Quarterly, a journal, prints? Three lead editors do.
  • War in HistoryThe journal War in History covers ancient naval battles and twentieth-century air campaigns.
  • Russian History (Brill journal)Russian History is an academic journal that has been published since 1974. Brill Publications distributes it quarterly.
  • Strategic Studies QuarterlyStrategic Studies Quarterly, an Air Force journal, ended in 2021 after fourteen years. Æther replaced it.
  • South African Historical JournalThe South African Historical Journal has published quarterly research since 1969.
  • Perspectives on PoliticsPerspectives on Politics ranked 8th of 165 political science journals in 2016. Jennifer Hochschild founded it.
  • The Economic History ReviewHistorian Eileen Power launched The Economic History Review in 1927.
  • Journal of Economic PerspectivesThe Journal of Economic Perspectives was founded in 1987 to make economics readable for non-economists.
  • The Journal of MusicologyEvery piece in The Journal of Musicology is checked by other scholars before readers see it.
  • Environmental Research LettersA soil scientist and a nuclear researcher may land on the same Environmental Research Letters article.
  • The Historical JournalIn 1958, The Historical Journal dropped Cambridge from its title. It began in 1923 as The Cambridge Historical Journal.
  • Parameters (journal)Parameters is a journal from an Army school built for thinking about war. It began in 1971.
  • The Journal of African American HistoryBlack History Month traces back to a week Carter G. Woodson created in 1926.
  • The Journal of American HistoryIn 1964, the Mississippi Valley Historical Review became the Journal of American History.
  • Canadian Slavonic PapersCanadian Slavonic Papers carries two titles, one in English and one in French. It serves two language communities.
  • Iranian Studies (journal)Iranian Studies, a journal on Iranian history and literature, changed publishers in 2021.
  • Journal of Genocide ResearchFor its first six years, the Journal of Genocide Research published without peer review. That changed in December 2005.
  • New Literary HistoryIn 1999, New Literary History became the first English-language literary journal translated into Chinese.
  • Public Opinion QuarterlyPublic Opinion Quarterly was founded in 1937 by a former diplomat. DeWitt Clinton Poole edited it at Princeton.
  • The Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryThe Journal of Ecclesiastical History has explored how the Church and the world shaped each other since 1950.
  • Journal of the American Academy of ReligionBefore 1966, the JAAR journal was called the Journal of Bible and Religion.
  • Artificial Life (journal)Artificial Life is a journal for human-built systems that behave like living things. It has been published since 1993.
  • Critique: Journal of Socialist TheoryWhen the Soviet Union dissolved, the journal Critique chose to expand rather than close.
  • International Journal of Political EconomyMany articles in the International Journal of Political Economy are English translations.
  • Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansA 1941 architecture journal started with American in its name, then widened to international topics.
  • Slavic ReviewSlavic Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal with a scope far wider than its name suggests. It describes its territory as "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present". That phrase takes in many regions,…
  • Pacific Historical ReviewThe Pacific Historical Review has asked what it means to move west since 1932. It is a quarterly academic journal.
  • Political Science QuarterlyOne editor ran Political Science Quarterly for 43 years, from 1973 to 2020. Demetrios James Caraley led the journal.
  • Early Music (journal)The founder of the journal Early Music called a music department's editorial control "spiritual death."
  • Law & Society ReviewLaw & Society Review, founded in 1966, is a journal many scholars regard as a leader in the sociology of law.
  • The Musical QuarterlyThe Musical Quarterly, the oldest academic music journal in America, has published without interruption since 1915.
  • Inter-Asia Cultural StudiesInter-Asia Cultural Studies is a journal launched in 2000 to link scholars in Asia and beyond.
  • The Journal of Modern HistoryThe Journal of Modern History has covered Europe since 1929. Its coverage begins roughly in 1500.
  • The Polish ReviewOne editor led the journal The Polish Review from 1956 to 1986. Ludwik Krzyżanowski outlasted every later editor.
  • Reviews of Modern PhysicsReviews of Modern Physics first avoided unsettled science, then reversed course. Readership was falling by the 1950s.
  • Contemporary PhysicsStephen Hawking wrote for a physics journal aimed at students. Contemporary Physics has run since 1959.
  • The Musical TimesThe Musical Times began in 1842 as an eight-page leaflet with a choral song inside.
  • Journal of DemocracyThe Journal of Democracy has published Václav Havel, the Dalai Lama and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
  • Past & Present (journal)A British history journal in 1952 called itself A Journal of Scientific History.
  • The Russian ReviewThe Russian Review began weeks after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
  • Oxford Review of Economic PolicyThe Oxford Review of Economic Policy builds each quarterly issue around one theme.
  • Notes (journal)Notes, a music librarians' journal, began in 1934 as one person's mimeographed newsletter.
  • Population and Development ReviewOne editor ran the journal Population and Development Review for nearly four decades.
  • Publius (journal)Three men once shared one secret pen name, Publius. A journal about federalism later borrowed it in 1971.
  • The American Historical ReviewHistorians trained in Germany wanted a stricter journal, and The American Historical Review followed.
  • The MonistBertrand Russell's Philosophy of Logical Atomism first appeared in a journal, not a book.
  • EconomicaEconomica has been putting economics research into print since 1921. It is a journal for generalists, which means it does not confine itself to one corner of the discipline. A reader might find a paper on almost any economic question…
  • The Journal of Law and EconomicsThe Journal of Law and Economics helped build a field that did not yet exist.
  • The Historian (journal)One issue of The Historian journal might mix ancient civilizations with twentieth-century political movements.

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