Sociology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2024
1	Annual Review of Sociology	ca. 8.4
2	Annals of Tourism Research	ca. 8.1
3	American Sociological Review	ca. 6.9
4	Sociological Methods & Research	ca. 5.3
5	Work and Occupations	ca. 4.5
6	Sociology of Education	ca. 4.4
7	American Journal of Sociology	ca. 4.3
-	Agriculture and Human Values	ca. 4.3
9	Gender & Society	ca. 4
-	Population and Development Review	ca. 4
11	Work Employment and Society	ca. 3.9
12	Economy and Society	ca. 3.8
-	European Societies	ca. 3.8
14	Information Communication & Society	ca. 3.6
-	Journal of Health and Social Behavior	ca. 3.6
16	Journal of Marriage and Family	ca. 3.5
17	Journal of Sport & Social Issues	ca. 3.3
-	Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association	ca. 3.3
-	European Sociological Review	ca. 3.3
20	International Political Sociology	ca. 3.2
-	Media Culture & Society	ca. 3.2
-	Politics & Society	ca. 3.2
-	Social Indicators Research	ca. 3.2
-	Society and Mental Health	ca. 3.2
-	Annual Review of Law and Social Science	ca. 3.2
26	Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism	ca. 3.1
-	Social Science Research	ca. 3.1
28	Health Sociology Review	ca. 3
-	Socio-Economic Review	ca. 3
-	International Review for the Sociology of Sport	ca. 3
31	New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development	ca. 2.9
-	Qualitative Research	ca. 2.9
-	Sociological Review	ca. 2.9
-	Race & Class	ca. 2.9
-	Sociological Methodology	ca. 2.9
36	Sociologia Ruralis	ca. 2.8
-	Sociological Science	ca. 2.8
38	Law & Society Review	ca. 2.7
-	Social Networks	ca. 2.7
-	City & Community	ca. 2.7
-	Cornell Hospitality Quarterly	ca. 2.7
-	International Journal of Intercultural Relations	ca. 2.7
43	Social Forces	ca. 2.6
-	British Journal of Sociology	ca. 2.6
-	Sociology of Race and Ethnicity	ca. 2.6
-	Poetics	ca. 2.6
-	Sociology of Health & Illness	ca. 2.6
48	Social Movement Studies	ca. 2.5
-	Social Problems	ca. 2.5
-	Sociology Compass	ca. 2.5

-	Ethnic and Racial Studies	ca. 2.5
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	ca. 2.5
53	Rural Sociology	ca. 2.4
-	Sociology of Sport Journal	ca. 2.4
-	Research in Social Stratification and Mobility	ca. 2.4
-	European Journal of Social Theory	ca. 2.4
57	Journal of Leisure Research	ca. 2.3
-	Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion	ca. 2.3
59	Sociology of Religion	ca. 2.2
60	Acta Sociologica	ca. 2.1
-	Current Sociology	ca. 2.1
-	Language in Society	ca. 2.1
-	Society & Natural Resources	ca. 2.1
-	British Journal of Sociology of Education	ca. 2.1
-	Sport in Society	ca. 2.1
66	Race and Social Problems	ca. 2
-	Social Justice Research	ca. 2
-	Critical Sociology	ca. 2
-	Human Ecology	ca. 2
-	Men and Masculinities	ca. 2
71	Journal of Consumer Culture	ca. 1.9
-	Theory and Society	ca. 1.9
-	Youth & Society	ca. 1.9
-	Leisure Sciences	ca. 1.9
-	Anthrozoos	ca. 1.9
-	Crime Media Culture	ca. 1.9
-	Discourse & Society	ca. 1.9
78	International Journal of Comparative Sociology	ca. 1.8
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	ca. 1.8
-	Archives Europeennes de Sociologie	ca. 1.8
-	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	ca. 1.8
82	Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies	ca. 1.7
-	Sexualities	ca. 1.7
-	Sociological Quarterly	ca. 1.7
-	Deviant Behavior	ca. 1.7
86	Kolner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie	ca. 1.6
-	Social Science Quarterly	ca. 1.6
-	Society & Animals	ca. 1.6
-	Qualitative Sociology	ca. 1.6
-	Sociological Forum	ca. 1.6
-	Sociological Perspectives	ca. 1.6
92	International Sociology	ca. 1.5
-	Society	ca. 1.5
-	Symbolic Interaction	ca. 1.5
-	Sociological Research Online	ca. 1.5
-	Body & Society	ca. 1.5
-	Chinese Sociological Review	ca. 1.5
-	Cultural Sociology	ca. 1.5
99	Mobilization	ca. 1.4
-	Rationality and Society	ca. 1.4
-	Sociological Inquiry	ca. 1.4
-	Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne de Sociologie	ca. 1.4
-	Journal of Law and Society	ca. 1.4
-	Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas	ca. 1.4
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	ca. 1.4
-	Food Culture & Society	ca. 1.4
107	American Journal of Cultural Sociology	ca. 1.3
-	Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research	ca. 1.3
-	Journal of Contemporary Ethnography	ca. 1.3
-	Nations and Nationalism	ca. 1.3
-	Armed Forces & Society	ca. 1.3
112	Review of Religious Research	ca. 1.2
-	Berliner Journal fuer Soziologie	ca. 1.2
-	Ethnography	ca. 1.2
-	Human Studies	ca. 1.2
-	Teaching Sociology	ca. 1.2
-	Young	ca. 1.2
-	Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race	ca. 1.2
119	Sociological Spectrum	ca. 1.1
-	Social Compass	ca. 1.1
121	Sociologia	ca. 0.9
122	Journal of Mathematical Sociology	ca. 0.8
-	Contemporary Sociology-A Journal of Reviews	ca. 0.8
-	Convergencia-Revista de Ciencias Sociales	ca. 0.8
-	Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie	ca. 0.8
126	Revista Internacional de Sociologia	ca. 0.6
-	Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya	ca. 0.6
128	Sociologie du Travail	ca. 0.5
129	Human Ecology Review	ca. 0.4
-	Tempo Social	ca. 0.4
131	Sociologisk Forskning	ca. 0.3
-	Drustvena Istrazivanja	ca. 0.3
-	Filosofija-Sociologija	ca. 0.3
-	Deviance et Societe	ca. 0.3
135	Telos	ca. 0.2
136	Revue Francaise de Sociologie	ca. 0.1