Ever since 1988, BIOS functions as the academic forum for biographic research, oral history and life course analyses. Across disciplines and national boundaries, scholars from sociology, history, pedagogy, ethnology and philology use BIOS as a viable forum.

Discourse. Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research offers a forum for the most important findings in Childhood and Youth Studies, important ground work for theory geneses and for discussions of practical matters (in social and educational politics as well as all fields of pedagogy).

dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management contributes to the interdisciplinary discourse addressing scholars (from political science, administration, legal studies, economics, finances, organizational studies and psychology) as well as practitioners (management in administration and companies).

The DNGPS (Deutsche Nachwuchsgesellschaft für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft) was founded in 2011 in Osnabrück, Germany, and has set itself the target of improving interconnections between students of the political and social sciences and thus promoting a scientific exchange and a broad network within the student body.

Erziehungswissenschaft is the most widely read journal in the German speaking scientific community of educational research and pedagogy. It is the journal of the German Educational Research Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft, DGfE).

Exposé – Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliches Schreiben und Publizieren is primarily aimed at young academics. The aim is to shed light on the various aspects of academic communication in an entertaining and understandable way.

As of 1997, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft offers a forum for everyone who is interested in feminist political science.

FuG – Zeitschrift für Fußball und Gesellschaft sees itself as an interdisciplinary publication for academic texts that address soccer and its relationships to the everyday lives of people and their society in theoretical and/or empirical terms.

FZG – Freiburger Zeitschrift für Geschlechterstudien offers a scholarly forum for gender and queer studies. Each issue focuses on a specific topic always aiming at an interdisciplinary discussion. It provides a renowned forum for topical discussions and is open towards articles from natural sciences and medicine as well as theoretical reflexions on an interdisciplinary approach to gender studies.

GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft provides an interdisciplinary forum for academic debate in Gender Studies as well as a means of discussion between academics and practitioners.

With a focus on civic education, GWP – Gesellschaft. Wirtschaft. Politik publishes articles from social sciences, economics and politics. To make current affairs in society, economy and politics teachable for teachers, and, thus, intelligible to students, is this journal’s aim.

HiBiFo – Haushalt in Bildung & Forschung is a scientifically and application-orientated journal of nutrition, health, and consumer education within the framework of general and vocational education.

IJAR – International Journal of Action Research provides a forum for an open and non dogmatic discussion about action research, regarding both its present situation and future perspectives. This debate is open to the variety of action research concepts worldwide. The focus is on dialogues between theory and practice.

IJREE aims at creating international visibility and a stronger scientific profile for the research field of extended education. The double-blind peer reviewed journal is published by a group of internationally renowned educational researchers and was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The international journal publishes contributions to the scientific discussion in the social sciences, especially in the field of sociology.

Pädagogische Korrespondenz (PÄK) has been published twice a year since 1987 with the aim of making critical diagnoses of the times in pedagogy and society. Until 2021 it was published by the „Institute for Pedagogy and Society“ (Münster).

PCS – Politics, Culture and Socialization publishes new and significant work in all areas of political socialization in order to achieve a better scientific understanding of the origins of political behaviors and orientations of individuals and groups.

PERIPHERIE provides interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, economy, culture and society in the unequal capitalistic post-colonial world. The journal both demands and promotes critical examination of and discussion between the global north and south, between science and movement, between theory and practice.

Politisches Lernen is published in its 43th year as the journal of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Bildung (DVPB).

RadiX offers a platform for the exchange of knowledge by collecting contributions on the latest developments in radicalization research and innovative prevention approaches.

Der Seniorenreport leistet den Transfer von fachwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen in die Praxis der Sozialarbeit, in die Politik und die politische Praxis. Sie liefert Informationen über gerontologische und sozialpolitische Themen und Weiterbildung von Multiplikator*innen in der Seniorenarbeit.

Soziologiemagazin specifically targets post-grad authors and readers on the brink of becoming fully-fledged academics. Each issue invites students and post-grads to submit contributions under a specific heading.

ZeHf – Zeitschrift für empirische Hochschulforschung (literally: Journal for Empirical Research in Higher Education) is an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on empirical academical research.

The Journal of Educational Migration Research (Zeitschrift für erziehungswissenschaftliche Migrationsforschung – ZeM) provides a forum for the differentiated and interdisciplinary constituted field of educational migration research.

ZISU – Zeitschrift für interpretative Schul- und Unterrichtsforschung is a forum for outstanding qualitative-empirical research results in the field of didactics and pedagogy. It is used for networking and profiling of shared research perspectives and wants to focus the attention to interdisciplinary, ready-for-theory and qualitative school and teaching research.

Founded in 2010, ZPTh – Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie offers analyses and articles for all scholars interested in political theory. Scholarly articles and controversies from political theory are published. All articles are peer reviewed according to international standards.

ZQF – Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung is a forum for qualitative and reconstructive research approaches in an ever growing number of disciplinary fields. Each issue focuses on a specific topic, and, in addition, offers four current research and methodological articles from all fields.

The aim of ZRex – Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung (Journal of Research of the Far Right) is to provide a forum for scientific research on the illiberal, populist or extreme right and thus to fill the structural gap of a missing academic platform for critical right-wing extremism research.

Jahrbuch erziehungswissenschaftliche Geschlechterforschung (formerly: Jahrbuch Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in der Erziehungswissenschaft) is based on an important scientific and political development.

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001 at the latest, the phenomenon of terrorism has become one of the central topics of security policy. In order to remedy the lack of solid information in German-speaking countries, the ISPK initiated the research project Jahrbuch Terrorismus in 2005.

360° was the scientific journal written by students. It was published once per semester, with each volume focused around a different topic which was interdisciplinary discussed from multiple perspectives.