Science & Society

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History

After its founding in 1936, the journal assembled as its editors, associates, and contributors a group of leading leftist academics and scientists, including J. D. Bernal, Joseph Needham, Louis Boudin, Ralph Bunche, E. Franklin Frazier, Robert Morss Lovett, Broadus Mitchell, Paul Sweezy, Margaret Schlauch, Edwin Berry Burgum, J. B. S. Haldane, Dirk Struik, and Granville Hicks. [2] But circumstances soon changed, as David Goldway writes:

Beginning in the early 1940s and intensifying by the end of that decade and into the next, Science and Society suffered from the severe repression of U.S. intellectual life. Many of its writers and editors were blacklisted. Some notable contributors developed political reservations and dropped away.... During the later 1950s, Science and Society felt the shock waves of the Twentieth Congress revelations, and the journal more openly and regularly reflected on the broad changes in Marxist thinking now required. [3]

Science & Society engaged in some notable academic controversies, for example, it took an early stance against the false Soviet biological theory of "Lysenkoism", and also participated in the Brenner debate about the origins of capitalism. [4]

Although the journal's circulation numbers have never been large, averaging about 3,000, it is still widely known and available in most college and university libraries in the U.S. and abroad. [5]

In January 2025, ownership of Science & Society transferred from Guilford Press to Sage Publishing. The editor-in-chief is Julio Huato (City University of New York). [6] David Laibman is editor emeritus. [7]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal had a 2024 impact factor of 1.1. [11]

References

  1. ↑ Goldway, David (1998). "Science and Society" . In Buhle, Mari Jo; Buhle, Paul; Georgakas, Dan (eds.). Encyclopedia of the American Left (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 723. ISBN   978-0195120882.
  2. ↑ Goldway, David (Fall 1986). "Fifty Years of Science & Society". Science & Society. 50 (3).
  3. ↑ Goldway 1998, p. 724.
  4. ↑ "History and Prospectus". Science & Society. Retrieved November 15, 2025.
  5. ↑ Goldway 1998 , pp. 723–724: "The major accomplishment of Science and Society has been the legitimation of Marxist theory within scholarly discourse, both on campuses and in Left political circles. Partly because of—and partly in spite of—its multidisciplinary character, the journal has sustained a stability rare in the Left."
  6. ↑ "The Editorial board". Science & Society. Retrieved September 25, 2025.
  7. ↑ Wendland, Joel (September–October 2004). "From the Ashes of the Old: An Interview with David Laibman". Political Affairs . Archived from the original on May 2, 2005.
  8. 1 2 "Science & Society". Web of Science Master Journal List. Clarivate . Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Science & Society". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals . University of Barcelona . Retrieved February 25, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Source details: Science & Society". Scopus Preview. Elsevier . Retrieved February 25, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Science & Society". 2024 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate. 2025 – via Web of Science.
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