Journal of Social Issues

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{{Infobox journal

| title = Journal of Social Issues

| cover = Journal of Social Issues, vol 80 issue 2.jpg

| editor = Carey Ryan

| discipline = Social psychology

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| abbreviation = J. Soc. Issues

| publisher = Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

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| frequency = Quarterly

| history = 1945–present

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| impact = 3.424

| impact-year = 2020

| website = http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-4560

| link1 = http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-4560/currentissue

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-4560/issues

| link2-name = Online archive

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| OCLC = 1782412

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| ISSN = 0022-4537

| eISSN = 1540-4560

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The Journal of Social Issues is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues along with Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy and Social Issues and Policy Review. The journal was established in 1945. The editor-in-chief is Carey S. Ryan (University of Nebraska Omaha).{{Cite web |url=http://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&pageId=1995 |title=Journal of Social Issues |website=SPSSI |language=en |access-date=2018-04-26}} The journal covers human and social issues such as poverty, privacy, youth violence, social class, and education.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.424, ranking it 10th out of 44 journals in the category "Social Issues".{{cite book |year=2020 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Social Issues |title=2020 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate Analytics |edition=Social Sciences |series=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}

A central article on occupational burnout was published in the journal in 1974.{{Cite Q | Q60305451 }}