About the Journal

NSaWG COVER

“Nierówności Społeczne a Wzrost Gospodarczy” (eng. “Social Inequalities and Economic Growth”) – ISSN 1898-5084, eISSN 2658-0780 – is a peer reviewed scientific journal. It has been edited by the University of Rzeszów since 2003 (as a quarterly since 2014).

Aims and scope

“Social Inequalities and Economic Growth” focuses on social and economic aspects of the relations between inequalities and development. The Journal prefers studies which discuss economic problems from an interdisciplinary perspective. It devotes special attention to studies on the connections of economy with other fields of human activity (such as sociology, axiology, knowledge, politics, nature and biology, consumption and technology).

The Editorial Board accepts the following for review and publication:

  • theoretical research
  • papers which verify theories, ideas and models based on empirical research,
  • case studies and other empirical research,
  • statements, reviews and refuting studies.

“Social Inequalities and Economic Growth” uses double-blind peer review (neither the authors nor the reviewers know the identity of each other) to avoid bias (See more information: Reviewing).

The Journal is indexed by: 

  • IC Journals Master List (Index Copernicus), 
  • The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH), 
  • Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), 
  • BazEkon,
  • POL-Index,
  • Arianta,
  • EconBiz (ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics),
  • MOST repository (Gdańsk University of Technology),
  • EBSCO,
  • ERIH PLUS.

“Social Inequalities and Economic Growth” is available in print and online. The printed version is the original (reference) version of the Journal. The online version has the same content as the printed version. “Social Inequalities and Economic Growth” is an open access journal (free of charges for readers).

“Social Inequalities and Economic Growth”  is featured among 100 most popular scientific journals in Poland, according to Google Scholar (Polish top 100 Journals Google Scholar): In 2020: 10. position, h5=16 (in 2019: 14. position, h5=12; in 2018: 19. position, h5=11).

Ministry of Science - Republic of Poland

“Social Inequalities and Economic Growth” has been granted co-funding from the Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland for scientific dissemination activities based on contract no. 783/P-DUN/2019.

“Social Inequalities and Economic Growth” is a beneficiary of the "Support for scientific journals” programme founded in 2019-2020 by Ministry of  Education and Science in Poland, with 40 points awarded for publication.

ISSN 1898-5084, eISSN 2658-0780
DOI: 10.15584/nsawg

License: Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)