Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Soc. Compass Language English, French Publisher SAGE Publications | Discipline Sociology of religion Edited by Céline Polain Publication history 1953-present | |
Social Compass is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of sociology of religion. The journal's editor-in-chief is Céline Polain (University of Louvain) and it is published by SAGE Publications.
It was established in 1953 and published in the Netherlands until coming to be administered by the Catholic organization of FERES (Fédération Internationale des Instituts Catholiques de Recherches socio-religieuses) in the early 1960s, currently the International Federation of Institutes for Social & Socio-Religious Research.
Abstracting and indexing
Social Compass is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 0.224, ranking it 112th out of 129 journals in the category "Sociology".