Sociology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Sociology	16
2	Annals of Tourism Research	15
3	American Sociological Review	14
4	Sociological Methods & Research	9
-	Society and Mental Health	9
-	Sociological Methodology	9
7	Agriculture and Human Values	8
-	Sociologia Ruralis	8
-	European Sociological Review	8
-	Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism	8
-	Sociology of Education	8
-	Economy and Society	8
13	Information Communication & Society	7
-	Media Culture & Society	7
-	Politics & Society	7
-	Social Networks	7
-	Sociological Review	7
-	Work and Occupations	7
-	Health Sociology Review	7
-	Journal of Leisure Research	7
-	Social Indicators Research	7
22	Journal of Marriage and Family	6
-	Socio-Economic Review	6
-	International Journal of Intercultural Relations	6
-	Journal of Health and Social Behavior	6
-	Cornell Hospitality Quarterly	6
-	Work Employment and Society	6
-	European Societies	6
29	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	5
-	International Political Sociology	5
-	Journal of Consumer Culture	5
-	Anthrozoos	5
-	British Journal of Sociology of Education	5
-	Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association	5
-	Journal of Sport & Social Issues	5
-	Poetics	5
-	Population and Development Review	5
-	Research in Social Stratification and Mobility	5
-	Social Science Research	5
-	Sociological Perspectives	5
-	Sociological Science	5
42	Human Ecology	4
-	Qualitative Research	4
-	Rural Sociology	4
-	Social Justice Research	4
-	Annual Review of Law and Social Science	4
-	Body & Society	4
-	Sociology Compass	4
-	Chinese Sociological Review	4
-	Sociology of Health & Illness	4

-	Ethnic and Racial Studies	4
-	European Journal of Social Theory	4
-	International Review for the Sociology of Sport	4
-	Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion	4
-	Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies	4
-	Leisure Sciences	4
-	Social Movement Studies	4
-	Social Problems	4
-	Society & Natural Resources	4
-	City & Community	4
-	Sociology of Sport Journal	4
-	Current Sociology	4
-	Youth & Society	4
64	International Journal of Comparative Sociology	3
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	3
-	Journal of Sociology	3
-	Kolner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie	3
-	New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development	3
-	Sexualities	3
-	Social Science Quarterly	3
-	Sociological Quarterly	3
-	Armed Forces & Society	3
-	Sport in Society	3
-	Cultural Sociology	3
-	Young	3
-	Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie	3
-	Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research	3
-	Journal of Contemporary Ethnography	3
-	Journal of Mathematical Sociology	3
-	Men and Masculinities	3
-	Acta Sociologica	3
-	American Journal of Cultural Sociology	3
-	Sociological Forum	3
-	Sociological Research Online	3
-	Berliner Journal fuer Soziologie	3
-	British Journal of Sociology	3
-	Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne de Sociologie	3
-	Critical Sociology	3
-	Deviant Behavior	3
-	Theory and Society	3
91	Food Culture & Society	2
-	International Sociology	2
-	Law & Society Review	2
-	Mobilization	2
-	Race and Social Problems	2
-	Rationality and Society	2
-	Review of Religious Research	2
-	Revista Internacional de Sociologia	2
-	Social Forces	2
-	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	2
-	Sociological Inquiry	2
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	2
-	Sociology of Religion	2
-	Discourse & Society	2
-	Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race	2
-	Human Studies	2
-	Nations and Nationalism	2
-	Qualitative Sociology	2
-	Race & Class	2
-	Social Compass	2
-	Sociology of Race and Ethnicity	2
-	Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya	2
-	Ethnography	2
114	Journal of Law and Society	1
-	Society	1
-	Society & Animals	1
-	Sociological Spectrum	1
-	Convergencia-Revista de Ciencias Sociales	1
-	Crime Media Culture	1
-	Teaching Sociology	1
-	Deviance et Societe	1
-	Tempo Social	1
-	Gender & Society	1
-	Language in Society	1
-	Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas	1
-	Sociologia	1
-	Sociologicky Casopis-Czech Sociological Review	1
-	Symbolic Interaction	1
-	Drustvena Istrazivanja	1
-	Filosofija-Sociologija	1
131	Journal of Historical Sociology	0
-	Sociologie du Travail	0
-	Revue Francaise de Sociologie	0
-	American Journal of Sociology	0
-	Archives Europeennes de Sociologie	0
-	Sociologisk Forskning	0
-	Contemporary Sociology-A Journal of Reviews	0
-	Telos	0