''Res Publica'' is a quarterly

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...

moral A moral (from Latin ''morālis'') is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. A ...

, legal,

social Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from ...

, and

political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

. It was established in 1995 and is published by

Springer Science+Business Media Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in ...

. The editors-in-chief are Sune Lægaard ( Roskilde University) and Clare Chambers (

Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes fr ...

). It is the official journal of the Association for Social and Political Philosophy (formerly the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature,

International Political Science Abstracts ''International Political Science Abstracts/Documentation Politique Internationale'' (''IPSA'')http://www.bl.uk/eresources/images/ipsa.pdf SOCIAL SCIENCES International Political Science Abstracts HELP SHEET, British Library is a bimonthly peer-re ...

, and

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