New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Sociology

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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)
Rank Journal TQCC
1 Annual Review of Sociology24
2 Annals of Tourism Research16
3 American Sociological Review14
4 Journal of Health and Social Behavior10
5 Economy and Society9
6 Sociologia Ruralis8
- Social Networks8
8 Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism7
- Sociological Methods & Research7
- Sociology of Education7
- Work and Occupations7
- European Sociological Review7
- New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development7
14 Social Indicators Research6
- Social Science Research6
- Agriculture and Human Values6
- International Journal of Intercultural Relations6
- Journal of Marriage and Family6
- Media Culture & Society6
- Qualitative Research6
- Sociological Methodology6
- Work Employment and Society6
- Health Sociology Review6
- Information Communication & Society6
25 Journal of Leisure Research5
- Social Movement Studies5
- Social Problems5
- Sociological Review5
- Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association5
- Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs5
- Politics & Society5
- Annual Review of Law and Social Science5
- Cornell Hospitality Quarterly5
- International Political Sociology5
35 Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies4
- Journal of Sport & Social Issues4
- Poetics4
- Research in Social Stratification and Mobility4
- Socio-Economic Review4
- Human Ecology4
- International Review for the Sociology of Sport4
- Journal of Sociology4
- Race and Social Problems4
- Social Justice Research4
- Society & Natural Resources4
- Anthrozoos4
- British Journal of Sociology of Education4
- Sociology of Health & Illness4
- Sociology of Sport Journal4
- Current Sociology4
- Youth & Society4
- European Societies4
- Journal of Consumer Culture4
54 Leisure Sciences3
- Population and Development Review3
- Qualitative Sociology3
- Berliner Journal fuer Soziologie3
- British Journal of Sociology3
- City & Community3
- Sport in Society3
- Cultural Sociology3
- Discourse & Society3
- Young3
- Ethnic and Racial Studies3
- European Journal of Social Theory3
- Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research3
- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion3
- Rural Sociology3
- Sexualities3
- Social Science Quarterly3
- Sociological Perspectives3
- Sociological Research Online3
- Body & Society3
- Sociology Compass3
- Deviant Behavior3
- Journal of Cultural Economy3
77 Journal of Mathematical Sociology2
- Men and Masculinities2
- Nations and Nationalism2
- Social Compass2
- Sociological Quarterly2
- Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race2
- Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie2
- Food Culture & Society2
- Journal of Contemporary Ethnography2
- Kolner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie2
- Rationality and Society2
- Review of Religious Research2
- Sociological Forum2
- Sociological Spectrum2
- Armed Forces & Society2
- Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne de Sociologie2
- Critical Sociology2
- Theory and Society2
- Ethnography2
- Human Ecology Review2
- International Journal of Comparative Sociology2
- International Sociology2
99 Language in Society1
- Race & Class1
- Society & Animals1
- Sociological Inquiry1
- Sociologicky Casopis-Czech Sociological Review1
- Canadian Journal of Sociology-Cahiers Canadiens de Sociologie1
- Sociology of Religion1
- Crime Media Culture1
- Teaching Sociology1
- Tempo Social1
- Deviance et Societe1
- Human Studies1
- Journal of Historical Sociology1
- Journal of Law and Society1
- Law & Society Review1
- Mobilization1
- Revista Internacional de Sociologia1
- Social Forces1
- Sociologia1
- Acta Sociologica1
- American Journal of Economics and Sociology1
- Comparative Studies in Society and History1
- Gender & Society1
122 Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas0
- Revue Francaise de Sociologie0
- American Journal of Sociology0
- Archives Europeennes de Sociologie0
- Sociologisk Forskning0
- Contemporary Sociology-A Journal of Reviews0
- Society0
- Sociologie du Travail0
- Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya0
- Symbolic Interaction0
- Telos0
- Drustvena Istrazivanja0
- Filosofija-Sociologija0
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