Aim and Scope

SOCRATES aspires to be one of the world's leading journal publishing innovative, responsive, and high-quality research papers. SOCRATES is a serious, scholarly publication that is peer-reviewed and indexed, and we only accept quality manuscripts to publish in this international journal. Our mission behind introducing and initiating this journal is to motivate scholars from Public Administration and Philosophy who have the willingness to produce and publish quality research and discuss their original research, thoughts, and ideas.

Subjects/Disciplines Covered:

1. Public Administration
2. Philosophy

Public Administration:

The Journal section of Public Administration seeks to contribute to the advancement of public administration researches by publishing the highest quality research-based theoretical and empirical works in this academic field. This journal section is multidisciplinary and includes within its scope organizational, administrative, managerial, and policy-based research papers that help in improving our understanding of the public sector.

The research areas covered under this Journal section are:

Library of Congress Classification Outline

JF1338-2112 Public administration

1. E-Governance
2. E-Government transformation (Transformation of Public sector Services)
3. Digital Governance
4. Comparative and Development Administration
5. Public Policy
6. Decentralization and Local Governance
7. Urban Development
8. Administrative Reforms
9. Public Sector Management
10. Social and organizational behaviour
11. Communication
12. Hospital Administration
13. Patient health outcomes
14. Human Resources Management
15. Community Development
16. Organizational Design and Theory
17. Refugee Studies
18. Disaster Management
19. Security and corrections
20. Police Administration
21. Environmental Governance

Philosophy:

The Journal section of Philosophy seeks to contribute to the advancement of philosophy by publishing the highest quality research-based, theoretical and empirical works on ethics political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophical and social thought, sociological and psychosocial studies, cultural studies, philosophy of medicine and philosophy of (bio) technology and related fields. This journal section is multidisciplinary and includes within its scope papers, which help in improving our understanding of philosophy, on moral philosophy (theoretical and applied ethics), political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophical and social thought, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of biotechnology.

The research areas covered under this Journal section are:

Library of Congress Classification Outline

Class B - Philosophy

1. History of Philosophy
• Ancient Greek Philosophies
• Philosophies of the Hellenistic-Roman Period
2. Continental Philosophy
• Eastern Philosophy
• Classical German Philosophy
3. Ethics
• Theoretical Ethics
• Applied Ethics
• Bioethics
• Medical ethics
• Clinical ethics
• Clinical ethics consultation
• Moral case deliberation
• Research ethics
• Ethics Education
• History of Ethics
4. Political Philosophy
5. Aesthetics
6. Epistemology
7. Metaphysics
8. Ontology
9. Logics
10. Contemporary philosophy
11. Theory of art
12. Philosophy of Law/Legal Philosophy
13. Philosophy of Medicine
14. Philosophy of Biotechnology
• Trans-humanism
• Futurism
• Post-humanism
15. Philosophical and Social Thought
16. Philosophical and Social Studies
17. Cultural Studies
• Art and Cultural Heritage
18. Education
• Education design
• Technology in education