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American Journal of Sociology
Psychology and social sciences
Among the 50 psychology and social sciences journals in this index it has the 13th highest h-index and the 46th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 469 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 65% |
| United Kingdom | 5% |
| Canada | 3% |
| Germany | 3% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 47% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Migration, Refugees, and Integration | 4% |
| Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis | 3% |
| Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies | 3% |
| Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies | 3% |
| Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice | 3% |
| Gender and Feminist Studies | 2% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Transnational Backlash and the Deinstitutionalization of Liberal Norms: LGBT+ Rights in a Contested World (2023, 136 citations)
- Walking the Moral Tightrope: Federal Civil Servants’ Loyalties, Caution, and Resistance under the Trump Administration (2023, 55 citations)
- Entrepreneurship as a Response to Labor Market Discrimination for Formerly Incarcerated People (2024, 42 citations)
- The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden (2023, 42 citations)
- How Tilly’s WUNC Works: Bystander Evaluations of Social Movement Signals Lead to Mobilization (2023, 38 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 0002-9602):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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- Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
- Social Forces
- American Sociological Review
- American Political Science Review
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- The American Historical Review
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