Pluto Journals publishes an international range of Open Access, radical, scholarly journals that are at the cutting edge of Social Science research.
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Covering migration, the Sustainable Development Goal’s, climate change, decolonialisation and more, our journals research and explore the most critical contemporary issues.
As we all embark on a new year, our journals continue to bring together diverse perspectives on some of the most pressing questions of our time, from conflict and the legacies of colonialism to the rise of populism and the impact of AI.
We have some exciting news to share: Pluto Journals is now a member of the Open Journals Collective (OJC), which launches in January 2026. It’s an exciting step towards a brighter future for diamond open access which aims to challenge profit driven models of global corporate publishing.
As part of the African Journals Initiative pilot programme we are thrilled to announce the release of a new issue of Ibadan Journal of Sociology (IJS), an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles from sociology, anthropology and other related disciplines.
Pluto Journals publishes all of its articles under a Diamond Open Access model, which means that they are immediately available for free on ScienceOpen and JSTOR. Authors do not have to pay any article processing charges (APCs), and everyone has free and unlimited access to the full text of all articles.
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