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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Sociology	24
2	Annals of Tourism Research	16
3	American Sociological Review	14
4	Journal of Health and Social Behavior	10
5	Economy and Society	9
6	Sociologia Ruralis	8
-	Social Networks	8
8	Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism	7
-	Sociological Methods & Research	7
-	Sociology of Education	7
-	Work and Occupations	7
-	European Sociological Review	7
-	New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development	7
14	Social Indicators Research	6
-	Social Science Research	6
-	Agriculture and Human Values	6
-	International Journal of Intercultural Relations	6
-	Journal of Marriage and Family	6
-	Media Culture & Society	6
-	Qualitative Research	6
-	Sociological Methodology	6
-	Work Employment and Society	6
-	Health Sociology Review	6
-	Information Communication & Society	6
25	Journal of Leisure Research	5
-	Social Movement Studies	5
-	Social Problems	5
-	Sociological Review	5
-	Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association	5
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	5
-	Politics & Society	5
-	Annual Review of Law and Social Science	5
-	Cornell Hospitality Quarterly	5
-	International Political Sociology	5
35	Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies	4
-	Journal of Sport & Social Issues	4
-	Poetics	4
-	Research in Social Stratification and Mobility	4
-	Socio-Economic Review	4
-	Human Ecology	4
-	International Review for the Sociology of Sport	4
-	Journal of Sociology	4
-	Race and Social Problems	4
-	Social Justice Research	4
-	Society & Natural Resources	4
-	Anthrozoos	4
-	British Journal of Sociology of Education	4
-	Sociology of Health & Illness	4
-	Sociology of Sport Journal	4
-	Current Sociology	4

-	Youth & Society	4
-	European Societies	4
-	Journal of Consumer Culture	4
54	Leisure Sciences	3
-	Population and Development Review	3
-	Qualitative Sociology	3
-	Berliner Journal fuer Soziologie	3
-	British Journal of Sociology	3
-	City & Community	3
-	Sport in Society	3
-	Cultural Sociology	3
-	Discourse & Society	3
-	Young	3
-	Ethnic and Racial Studies	3
-	European Journal of Social Theory	3
-	Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research	3
-	Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion	3
-	Rural Sociology	3
-	Sexualities	3
-	Social Science Quarterly	3
-	Sociological Perspectives	3
-	Sociological Research Online	3
-	Body & Society	3
-	Sociology Compass	3
-	Deviant Behavior	3
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	3
77	Journal of Mathematical Sociology	2
-	Men and Masculinities	2
-	Nations and Nationalism	2
-	Social Compass	2
-	Sociological Quarterly	2
-	Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race	2
-	Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie	2
-	Food Culture & Society	2
-	Journal of Contemporary Ethnography	2
-	Kolner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie	2
-	Rationality and Society	2
-	Review of Religious Research	2
-	Sociological Forum	2
-	Sociological Spectrum	2
-	Armed Forces & Society	2
-	Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne de Sociologie	2
-	Critical Sociology	2
-	Theory and Society	2
-	Ethnography	2
-	Human Ecology Review	2
-	International Journal of Comparative Sociology	2
-	International Sociology	2
99	Language in Society	1
-	Race & Class	1
-	Society & Animals	1
-	Sociological Inquiry	1
-	Sociologicky Casopis-Czech Sociological Review	1
-	Canadian Journal of Sociology-Cahiers Canadiens de Sociologie	1
-	Sociology of Religion	1
-	Crime Media Culture	1
-	Teaching Sociology	1
-	Tempo Social	1
-	Deviance et Societe	1
-	Human Studies	1
-	Journal of Historical Sociology	1
-	Journal of Law and Society	1
-	Law & Society Review	1
-	Mobilization	1
-	Revista Internacional de Sociologia	1
-	Social Forces	1
-	Sociologia	1
-	Acta Sociologica	1
-	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	1
-	Comparative Studies in Society and History	1
-	Gender & Society	1
122	Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas	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
-	Society	0
-	Sociologie du Travail	0
-	Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya	0
-	Symbolic Interaction	0
-	Telos	0
-	Drustvena Istrazivanja	0
-	Filosofija-Sociologija	0