Human Affairs-Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly

Human Affairs-Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly is published by Walter de Gruyter and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Philosophical Ethics and Theory, Philosophy and Historical Thought and Political Philosophy and Ethics, together about 25.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Philosophy. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly (founded in 1990 as Human Affairs) is an international journal for the humanities and social sciences published by De Gruyter Brill and owned by the Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. The journal’s primary mission is to create a space for interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars conducting innovative theoretical, interpretative, critical, or historical research on issues related to human affairs. Specifically, the journal aims to foster collaboration across diverse social, cultural, and epistemological contexts. In particular, we publish theoretical and empirical studies that combine conceptual or methodological approaches from multiple disciplines. The aim is to enable communication between sub-disciplines such as (but not limited to) social psychology and sociology, educational psychology, gender studies, anthropology, bioethics, philosophy of mind, and political science. We also welcome studies addressing practical and applied dimensions of human interactions and human affairs more broadly. Why Subscribe and Read It brings together contributions from both traditional and emerging fields within the humanities and social sciences, addressing important contemporary issues in human affairs. Why Submit Fast, fair, and constructive peer review. Upon submission, an editor’s first decision typically takes five days. The first round of peer review typically takes approximately six weeks. The mean time frame between submitting a manuscript and its publication is approximately six months. Human Affairs is committed to maximising free access to scientific knowledge. Therefore, we provide free access to one Editor’s Choice paper in each issue, make the full content of the journal freely accessible after 24 months from publication, and offer authors an option to publish their articles in an Open Access licence (upon payment of an Article Processing Charge). More information can be found under https://www.degruyterbrill.com/publishing/for-authors/journal-authors/open-access. Authors publishing in hybrid journals do not have to pay APCs if they do not wish to publish their article open access. Submit Article Rejection Rate 80% Complete Archive Access As of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1, through to today, meaning subscribers can access even more research at no additional cost. Specia

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Editor-in-chief GABRIEL BIANCHIPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.17LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.4LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

29OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

117OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.42OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

15.65%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Volume

Articles per year

35LetPub · 2026-11-01

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.

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISSN

1210-3055

Electronic ISSN

1337-401X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website