The ''Journal of Social Issues'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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published by

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on behalf of the

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Founded in 1936, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) is a group of 3,000 scientists from psychology and related fields who share a common interest in research on the psychological aspects of important social and policy i ...

along with '' Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy'' and '' Social Issues and Policy Review''. The journal was established in 1945. The editor-in-chief is Carey S. Ryan (

University of Nebraska Omaha The University of Nebraska Omaha (Omaha or UNO) is a public research university in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary as a private non-sectarian college, the university was originally kn ...

). The journal covers human and social issues such as poverty, privacy, youth violence, social class, and education. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020

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of 3.424, ranking it 10th out of 44 journals in the category "Social Issues". A central article on occupational burnout was published in the journal in

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

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