Language English | Discipline Sociology Publication history 1967-present | |
Edited by Andrew King, Karim Murji, Sarah Neal, Sophie Watson, Kath Woodward Publisher Sage Publications on behalf of the British Sociological Association (United Kingdom) | ||
Sociology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the British Sociological Association. The journal's editors-in-chief are Andrew King, Sarah Neal (both University of Surrey), Karim Murji, Sophie Watson, and Kath Woodward (all Open University).
Contents
Sociology is the highest impact ranked journal in the UK for the subject area. Sociology is regarded as one of the three "main sociology journals in Britain," along with the The Sociological Review and the British Journal of Sociology.
The journal was established in 1967 as "the clearest intellectual representative of the social aspirations of the Butskellite era," with Michael Banton serving as its first editor. It was formerly published by Cambridge University Press and has been published by Sage Publications since 2002. Shortly after its establishment, it became the official journal of the British Sociological Association, replacing the British Journal of Sociology.
Abstracting and indexing
Sociology is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2015 impact factor is 2.165, ranking it 13 out of 142 journals in the category "Sociology".
Former editors
Notable articles
According to Google Scholar, the most-cited articles published in Sociology are:
As of April 2012, the most highly cited article, "Social network analysis" by John Scott, had been cited over 5500 times.