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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Sociology	26
2	Annals of Tourism Research	15
-	American Sociological Review	15
4	Society and Mental Health	10
5	Sociological Methods & Research	9
6	Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism	8
-	Sociological Methodology	8
-	Sociology of Education	8
-	Social Networks	8
-	Sociologia Ruralis	8
-	European Sociological Review	8
12	Journal of Leisure Research	7
-	Work Employment and Society	7
-	Economy and Society	7
-	Health Sociology Review	7
-	Journal of Marriage and Family	7
-	Media Culture & Society	7
-	Politics & Society	7
-	Agriculture and Human Values	7
-	Sociological Review	7
-	Work and Occupations	7
22	Journal of Health and Social Behavior	6
-	Social Indicators Research	6
-	Cornell Hospitality Quarterly	6
-	European Societies	6
-	International Journal of Intercultural Relations	6
-	Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association	6
-	Information Communication & Society	6
-	International Political Sociology	6
30	International Review for the Sociology of Sport	5
-	Poetics	5
-	Population and Development Review	5
-	Research in Social Stratification and Mobility	5
-	Social Science Research	5
-	Sociological Science	5
-	Journal of Consumer Culture	5
-	Qualitative Research	5
-	Socio-Economic Review	5
-	British Journal of Sociology of Education	5
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	5
-	Human Ecology	5
42	Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies	4
-	Journal of Sport & Social Issues	4
-	Social Movement Studies	4
-	Social Problems	4
-	Society & Natural Resources	4
-	Sociological Perspectives	4
-	City & Community	4
-	Sociology of Sport Journal	4
-	Current Sociology	4

-	Youth & Society	4
-	Journal of Sociology	4
-	New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development	4
-	Sexualities	4
-	Annual Review of Law and Social Science	4
-	Anthrozoos	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
63	Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion	3
-	Leisure Sciences	3
-	Men and Masculinities	3
-	Qualitative 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
-	Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research	3
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	3
-	Kolner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie	3
-	Race and Social Problems	3
-	Rural Sociology	3
-	Social Justice Research	3
-	Social Science Quarterly	3
-	Sociological Quarterly	3
-	Armed Forces & Society	3
-	Sport in Society	3
-	Cultural Sociology	3
-	Discourse & Society	3
-	International Journal of Comparative Sociology	3
88	Journal of Contemporary Ethnography	2
-	Journal of Mathematical Sociology	2
-	Nations and Nationalism	2
-	Race & Class	2
-	Social Compass	2
-	Acta Sociologica	2
-	American Journal of Cultural Sociology	2
-	Sociology of Race and Ethnicity	2
-	Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya	2
-	Ethnography	2
-	Human Studies	2
-	Mobilization	2
-	Rationality and Society	2
-	Review of Religious Research	2
-	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	2
-	Sociological Inquiry	2
-	Sociological Spectrum	2
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	2
-	Sociology of Religion	2
-	Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race	2
-	Young	2
-	Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie	2
-	Food Culture & Society	2
111	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
-	Gender & Society	1
-	International Sociology	1
-	Journal of Historical Sociology	1
-	Journal of Law and Society	1
-	Law & Society Review	1
-	Revista Internacional de Sociologia	1
-	Social Forces	1
-	Society	1
-	Society & Animals	1
-	Convergencia-Revista de Ciencias Sociales	1
-	Crime Media Culture	1
-	Teaching Sociology	1
-	Deviance et Societe	1
-	Tempo Social	1
132	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
-	Sociologie du Travail	0