Cross-Cultural Research (CCR)

Cross-Cultural Research (CCR) is a long-standing and respected academic journal dedicated to advancing systematic cross-cultural and comparative research in the social sciences. Since its inception in 1966 (originally under the title Behavior Science Research), CCR has served as a premier outlet for studies that rigorously test theoretical assumptions about human behaviour and cultural variation across diverse populations. The journal functions as a multidisciplinary forum where scholars from anthropology, psychology, sociology, archaeology, political science, economics, and biological sciences present empirically grounded findings and methodological innovations. Unlike journals that focus narrowly on a single discipline, CCR emphasizes comparative perspectives — inviting research that highlights both cultural universals and societal differences through systematic sampling, coded datasets, and theoretical synthesis. Topics often include social organization, family systems, belief structures, economic behaviors, ecological adaptations, and more, always with an analytical lens that places culture at the heart of human inquiry. The journal also occasionally publishes methodological and theoretical essays that address advances in cross-cultural data collection, analysis, and conceptual frameworks. Its interdisciplinary approach encourages dialogue across fields while maintaining rigorous standards of evidence and comparative logic, making it essential reading for researchers interested in broad patterns of cultural and social life.

Cross-Cultural Research (CCR) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Applied Psychology, General Psychology, General Social Sciences, Psychology (miscellaneous), societal structures, cultural norms, belief systems, and their variations and parallels across cultural contexts. The journal’s scope emphasizes rigorous comparative methodology, systematic comparative analyses, methodological innovations, and theoretically grounded discussions that advance understanding of cultural patterns and human social organization , Online or Print , Quarterly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 1069-3971, E-ISSN: 1552-3578, Established: 1996, Impact Factor: 1.8
• Does Not Provide Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE