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American Sociological Review
Psychology and social sciences
Among the 50 psychology and social sciences journals in this index it has the 6th highest h-index and the 14th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 149 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 78% |
| Canada | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 7% |
| France | 5% |
| Germany | 4% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 95% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies | 7% |
| Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis | 5% |
| Labor market dynamics and wage inequality | 3% |
| Labor Movements and Unions | 3% |
| Religion and Society Interactions | 3% |
| Social and Cultural Dynamics | 3% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins (2023, 106 citations)
- Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps (2024, 97 citations)
- The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960 to 2022 (2023, 69 citations)
- The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline (2023, 69 citations)
- Change in Personal Culture over the Life Course (2023, 56 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 0003-1224):
- 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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- American Journal of Sociology
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- The Economic Journal
- American Economic Review
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