Sociology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Annals of Tourism Research	44
2	Annual Review of Sociology	28
3	Social Indicators Research	26
4	Information Communication & Society	24
5	Media Culture & Society	23
6	Agriculture and Human Values	22
7	Journal of Health and Social Behavior	21
-	American Sociological Review	21
9	Social Science Research	20
10	Population and Development Review	19
-	Social Networks	19
-	Journal of Marriage and Family	19
13	Ethnic and Racial Studies	18
-	International Journal of Intercultural Relations	18
-	Social Science Quarterly	18
-	Sociology Compass	18
-	Sociology of Health & Illness	18
-	Work Employment and Society	18
-	Gender & Society	18
20	European Sociological Review	17
21	Social Problems	16
-	Sociologia Ruralis	16
-	Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association	16
-	Social Forces	16
-	British Journal of Sociology of Education	16
-	Qualitative Research	16
27	Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism	15
-	Socio-Economic Review	15
-	American Journal of Sociology	15
-	Sociological Methods & Research	15
-	British Journal of Sociology	15
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	15
-	Society & Natural Resources	15
-	Cornell Hospitality Quarterly	15
-	Deviant Behavior	15
-	Economy and Society	15
37	Sociological Review	14
-	Rural Sociology	14
-	Critical Sociology	14
40	Sport in Society	13
-	Discourse & Society	13
-	International Review for the Sociology of Sport	13
-	Leisure Sciences	13
-	Poetics	13
-	Research in Social Stratification and Mobility	13
-	Sociological Forum	13
-	Current Sociology	13
-	Youth & Society	13
49	Social Movement Studies	12
-	Journal of Leisure Research	12

-	Nations and Nationalism	12
-	Anthrozoos	12
-	European Societies	12
-	International Political Sociology	12
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	12
-	New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development	12
57	Sociology of Education	11
-	Work and Occupations	11
-	Young	11
-	Human Ecology	11
-	Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research	11
-	Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion	11
-	Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies	11
-	Language in Society	11
-	Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas	11
-	Sexualities	11
-	Society	11
-	Annual Review of Law and Social Science	11
-	Health Sociology Review	11
-	Journal of Consumer Culture	11
-	Journal of Sociology	11
72	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	10
-	Sociological Research Online	10
-	Sociology of Sport Journal	10
-	Theory and Society	10
76	Sociological Inquiry	9
-	City & Community	9
-	Crime Media Culture	9
-	Teaching Sociology	9
-	Cultural Sociology	9
-	Men and Masculinities	9
-	Qualitative Sociology	9
-	Race & Class	9
-	Sociological Perspectives	9
-	Armed Forces & Society	9
-	International Journal of Comparative Sociology	9
-	Kolner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie	9
-	Law & Society Review	9
-	Politics & Society	9
90	Sociological Quarterly	8
-	Berliner Journal fuer Soziologie	8
-	Sociology of Religion	8
-	Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie	8
-	European Journal of Social Theory	8
-	Food Culture & Society	8
-	Human Studies	8
-	Journal of Sport & Social Issues	8
-	Social Justice Research	8
-	Sociological Methodology	8
-	Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne de Sociologie	8
-	International Sociology	8
-	Journal of Law and Society	8
-	Race and Social Problems	8
-	Review of Religious Research	8
105	Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race	7
-	Acta Sociologica	7
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	7
108	Social Compass	6
-	Archives Europeennes de Sociologie	6
-	Journal of Contemporary Ethnography	6
-	Body & Society	6
-	Symbolic Interaction	6
-	Ethnography	6
-	Mobilization	6
-	Rationality and Society	6
116	Society & Animals	5
-	Sociologicky Casopis-Czech Sociological Review	5
-	Tempo Social	5
-	Journal of Mathematical Sociology	5
-	Sociological Spectrum	5
-	Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya	5
-	Human Ecology Review	5
-	Journal of Historical Sociology	5
124	Drustvena Istrazivanja	4
-	Revista Internacional de Sociologia	4
126	Sociologisk Forskning	3
-	Canadian Journal of Sociology-Cahiers Canadiens de Sociologie	3
-	Contemporary Sociology-A Journal of Reviews	3
-	Deviance et Societe	3
-	Revue Francaise de Sociologie	3
-	Sociologia	3
-	Sociologie du Travail	3
-	Filosofija-Sociologija	3
134	Telos	2