''Humanities and Social Sciences Communications'' is a peer-reviewed open access

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published by

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. It covers all areas of the

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s and

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

. It was established in 2014 as ''Palgrave Communications'', obtaining its current name in 2020.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * Arts and Humanities Citation Index *

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/Arts & Humanities *Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences *

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* Social Sciences Citation Index According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 2.731.

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