> Edit: Just found out that SSRN is not even a peer reviewed journal! It's not really a journal at all. It is a repository for papers in the social sciences,

> Edit: Just found out that SSRN is not even a peer reviewed journal! It's not really a journal at all. It is a repository for papers in the social sciences, kind of like arXiv is for some other fields. Most of their target audience is well aware of this, but it might seem confusing if you're coming from outside academia. They're not trying to pretend they're something they're not. Putting pre-prints of papers on SSRN is considered good practice. SSRN is actually a pretty important source for open access research.