Academic magazines are also known as scholarly journals. For the most part, they are used as research tools, and they are written with a more serious tone than most consumer and trade magazines.

• American Journal of Political Science

• Artificial Life

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• Foreign Affairs

• International Security

• Journal of Cold War Studies

• Journal of the American Mathematical Society

• Latin American Research Review

• Political Science Quarterly

• Social Science Computer Review

• The Washington Quarterly