Social Movement Studies


Social Movement Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering social science research on protests, social movements, and collective behavior, including reviews of books on these topics. It was established in 2002 as a biannual journal by founding co-editors Tim Jordan, Adam Lent, and George McKay, soon to be joined by Anne Mische, and is published by Routledge. The current editor-in-chief is Cristina Flesher Fominaya . Previous editors-in-chief include and Kevin Gillan, Graeme Hayes and Brian Doherty.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 2.0.