Publication Fora
Listed below you will find academic journals which frequently publish articles that pertain to community-based research, university-community partnerships and other collaborative efforts to help build local community capacity and facilitate effective social change.
American Behavioral Scientist
Focuses, in theme-organized issues prepared under guest editors, on emerging cross-disciplinary interests, research and problems in the social sciences.
American Journal of Community Psychology
Offers quantitative and qualitative research on community psychological interventions at the social, neighborhood, organizational, group, and individual levels.
American Sociologist
Examines the history, current status, and future prospects of sociology as a profession and discipline, including new trends and how sociologists shape and influence social policy.
Citizenship Studies
Focuses contemporary issues in citizenship, human rights, and democractic processes and seeks to publish papers that provide links between theory, institutions, and the analysis of substantice issues.
Field Methods
Offers important refereed articles, descriptions of methodological advances, advice on the use of specific field techniques, essays, and think pieces.
Journal of Community Practice
Focuses on community practice, and covers research, theory, practice, and curriculum strategies for the full range of work with communities and organizations.
Journal of Public Service and Outreach
A peer-reviewed journal which publishes research articles, essays, commentary, reviews, and information on public service in its broadest interpretation.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
A national, peer-reviewed journal consisting of articles written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Provides cutting-edge research discussion, and anaylis of the field and leads its readers to understanding the impact the nonprofit sector has on society.
Social Problems
Publishes articles that tackle the most difficult of contemporary society's issues and brings to the fore influential sociological findings and theories that have the ability to help us both better understand-and better deal with-our complext social environment.
Sociological Imagination
Publishes articles and note-length manuscripts on issues pertaining to all areas of sociological research, teaching, and practice.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Presents powerful strategies for nonprofit management, social entrepreneurship, philanthropy and corporate citizenship.
Teaching Sociology
Features articles ranging from experimental studies of teaching and learning to broad, synthetic essays on pedagogically important issues.
The American Prospect
Publishes articles featuring liberal ideas geared towards generating debate and setting agendas committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Features articles and updates on the latest developments in scholarly research as well as on tenure, retirement, and other professional concerns of people in academe.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Source of news and updates for the nonprofit world featuring information for and about charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people in the philanthropic enterprise.
The Journal of Democracy
Publishes articles on the theory and practice of democracy aiming to engage both activists and intellectuals in critical discussions of the problems and prospects facing democracy around the world.
Urban Review
Emphasizes research and scholarly analysis on urban themes: urban life, metropolitan systems, urban economic development and urban policy as well as features articles on historical and cross-cultural perspectives that add to its interdisciplinary features.
Voluntas
Official journal of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, this international journal aims to present leading-edge academic argument around civil society issues in a style that is accessible to practitioners and policymakers.
Youth and Society
Aims to provide educators, counselors, researchers, and policy makers with the latest research and scholarship examining critical contemporary issues and presents vital, practical information for studying and working with young people today.
If you come across any other academic journals you feel would be useful to add to this list, please let us know at info@coralnetwork.org.
