Journal profile
Culture e Studi del Sociale
ISSN 2531-3975 · University of Salerno · Italy
Culture e Studi del Sociale: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 15 weeks (community reports); 35 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Culture e Studi del Sociale is published by University of Salerno. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Physical Education and Sports Studies, Migration, Refugees, and Integration and Intimate Partner and Family Violence, together about 21.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Gender Studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The journal Culture e Studi del Sociale is a scientific journal that provides a space of discussion and reflection (theoretical and empirical) among scholars, operators and civil society, within humanities and social sciences. Oriented to international collaborations, CuSSoc aims to be a place of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogue, which encourages the discussion without forgetting the classical studies of the individual disciplines and the research on emerging phenomena. Research results should have an important impact on political decision, on processes of formation, change and development, as well as on the integration of theories and paradigms. Therefore, the target is promoting reflections which encourage the dialogue among disciplines on the elements which favour/hinder social change, starting from analysis, evaluation and confrontation of different realities. The classical subjects of sociology and other humanities and social sciences and the analysis on the transformations of welfare represent an important part of the journal, but also imagery, everyday life, human rights are an important part, along with the study of emerging phenomena. It is open to contributions from all areas of sociology and transversal themes and disciplines. A few examples are given: from research methodology to the history of thought, from social policies to territorial development, from migration to gender issues, from law to deviance and crime, from justice to security issues and victimology, from cultural processes to communication, from religion to interculturalism, from new technologies to forms of sociality, from organisational systems to work. The journal, therefore, aims to be a generator of ideas and proposals to understand and interpret the social complexity and provide contributions for the innovative and sustainable policies.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Felice AddeoPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Italy 6, United Kingdom 1, Russia 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Physical Education and Sports StudiesSocial Sciences7.9%
- Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences6.7%
- Intimate Partner and Family ViolenceSocial Sciences6.7%
- Gender and Feminist StudiesSocial Sciences5.2%
- Social Sciences and PoliciesSocial Sciences5.2%
- Communication and COVID-19 ImpactSocial Sciences5.2%
- Sports, Gender, and SocietySocial Sciences4.5%
- Social impacts of COVID-19Social Sciences4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 6OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 240 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 35 | 35 | 10 |
| 2024 | 21 | 21 | 18 |
| 2023 | 22 | 22 | 16 |
| 2022 | 20 | 20 | 13 |
| 2021 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 15 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 15 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≤ 3
Article types accepted1
- saggi [essays]Saggi [Essays] The papers of the section "Saggi" [Essays] (between 35.000 and 60.000 characters, including footnotes, references and spaces) can be theoretical …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship
Manuscripts accepted in Italian or English; other EU languages possible at board discretion. Model summary
Language: Manuscripts are accepted in Italian or English. British English spelling and punctuation are preferred. The board reserves the right to publish papers in a EU language different from Italian and English.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Authors who publish in this journal agree with the following points:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
The journal provides for immediate open access to its content, on the principle that making a research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Peer review: double-blind review plus internal editorial scrutiny. Model summary
Culture e Studi del Sociale - CuSSoc uses the double-blind peer review process: both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The two anonymous review sheets are sent to the Author for the final adjustments. In case of conflicting evaluations, the article is sent to a third reviewer for the definitive decision: the prevaili…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- University of Salerno
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISSN
- 2531-3975
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 10, Issue 2 (2025)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Culture e Studi del Sociale
How long does peer review take at Culture e Studi del Sociale?
Authors report an average review time of about 15 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Culture e Studi del Sociale based?
Of the 8 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (6), United Kingdom (1) and Russia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Culture e Studi del Sociale?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Culture e Studi del Sociale is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Culture e Studi del Sociale open access, and what is the APC?
Culture e Studi del Sociale is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .