The ''Journal of Conflict Resolution'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering research on
international conflict
Peace and conflict studies is a social science field that identifies and analyzes violent and nonviolent behaviours as well as the structural mechanisms attending conflicts (including social conflicts), with a view towards understanding those pro ...
and
conflict resolution
Conflict resolution is conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution. Committed group members attempt to resolve group conflicts by actively communicating information abou ...
. It was established in 1957
and is published by
Sage Publications
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It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books ...
. The
editor-in-chief
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is Paul Huth (
University of Maryland, College Park
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).
History
The journal was established in 1957. In 1959, the journal was run by the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
When the Center closed in 1971 due to lack of funding, the journal was run by a team at Yale University.
Since 2009, the journal has been run by a team at the University of Maryland.
Bruce Russett
Bruce Martin Russett (born 1935) is Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Professor in International and Area Studies, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, MacMillan Center, Yale University, ...
was a long-time editor-in-chief of the journal prior to Paul Huth's appointment as editor-in-chief in 2009.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
Scopus
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,
RePEc, and the
Social Sciences Citation Index
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. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2017
impact factor
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of 3.491, ranking it 8th out of 69 journals in the category "Political Science" and 5th out of 85 journals in the category "International Relations".
References
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Publications established in 1957
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