Sociological Methodology

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SCImago
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Impact factor
2.5
SJR
1.440
CiteScore
4.9
Categories
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1987-1990, 1993, 1996-2025
journal names
Sociological Methodology
SOCIOL METHODOL
Publications
788
Citations
53 836
h-index
92
Publications
73
Citations
20 516
Top-3 citing journals
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (1232 citations)
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE (596 citations)
Social Networks
Social Networks (583 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 countries
USA (277 publications)
Netherlands (35 publications)
United Kingdom (24 publications)
USA (42 publications)
Germany (5 publications)
United Kingdom (4 publications)

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Citing journals

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SSRN Electronic Journal
1232 citations, 2.29%
PLoS ONE
596 citations, 1.11%
Social Networks
583 citations, 1.08%
Sociological Methods and Research
580 citations, 1.08%
Sociological Methodology
514 citations, 0.95%
Social Science Research
416 citations, 0.77%
Structural Equation Modeling
408 citations, 0.76%
Frontiers in Psychology
399 citations, 0.74%
American Journal of Sociology
281 citations, 0.52%
Demography
237 citations, 0.44%
Multivariate Behavioral Research
235 citations, 0.44%
Sustainability
231 citations, 0.43%
Social Science and Medicine
230 citations, 0.43%
American Sociological Review
194 citations, 0.36%
Quality and Quantity
181 citations, 0.34%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
163 citations, 0.3%
AIDS and Behavior
161 citations, 0.3%
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
160 citations, 0.3%
Annual Review of Sociology
159 citations, 0.3%
Journal of Marriage and Family
156 citations, 0.29%
Social Forces
129 citations, 0.24%
Social Indicators Research
118 citations, 0.22%
Psychological Methods
111 citations, 0.21%
European Sociological Review
110 citations, 0.2%
Scientific Reports
108 citations, 0.2%
Network Science
100 citations, 0.19%
Psychometrika
99 citations, 0.18%
BMC Public Health
94 citations, 0.17%
Criminology
93 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Applied Psychology
90 citations, 0.17%
Organization Science
88 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
87 citations, 0.16%
Educational and Psychological Measurement
86 citations, 0.16%
Journal of the American Statistical Association
84 citations, 0.16%
Developmental Psychology
83 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
82 citations, 0.15%
Population Research and Policy Review
78 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
77 citations, 0.14%
Advances in Life Course Research
77 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Affective Disorders
77 citations, 0.14%
Organizational Research Methods
74 citations, 0.14%
Sociological Quarterly
73 citations, 0.14%
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
67 citations, 0.12%
Poetics
66 citations, 0.12%
Justice Quarterly
66 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
66 citations, 0.12%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
65 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Educational Psychology
64 citations, 0.12%
Current Psychology
63 citations, 0.12%
Demographic Research
62 citations, 0.12%
Statistics in Medicine
62 citations, 0.12%
SAGE Open
62 citations, 0.12%
Behavior Research Methods
60 citations, 0.11%
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
60 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Urban Health
59 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Business Research
58 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Mathematical Sociology
57 citations, 0.11%
Sociological Perspectives
57 citations, 0.11%
Crime and Delinquency
57 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
57 citations, 0.11%
Administrative Science Quarterly
56 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Family Issues
56 citations, 0.1%
Annals of Applied Statistics
54 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Cleaner Production
54 citations, 0.1%
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society
53 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
53 citations, 0.1%
Urban Studies
53 citations, 0.1%
Personality and Individual Differences
52 citations, 0.1%
Development and Psychopathology
52 citations, 0.1%
Psychological Bulletin
51 citations, 0.09%
Strategic Management Journal
51 citations, 0.09%
Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
49 citations, 0.09%
BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique
49 citations, 0.09%
Academy of Management Journal
49 citations, 0.09%
Child Development
48 citations, 0.09%
American Journal of Public Health
48 citations, 0.09%
Sociology of Education
48 citations, 0.09%
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
48 citations, 0.09%
International Journal of Human Resource Management
47 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Business Ethics
46 citations, 0.09%
Computers in Human Behavior
46 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Management
45 citations, 0.08%
SSM - Population Health
45 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
45 citations, 0.08%
Applied Psychological Measurement
44 citations, 0.08%
European Journal of Population
44 citations, 0.08%
Political Analysis
44 citations, 0.08%
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
43 citations, 0.08%
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
43 citations, 0.08%
BMC Medical Research Methodology
43 citations, 0.08%
An Introduction to Regression Graphics
42 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Marketing Research
41 citations, 0.08%
Environment and Planning A
41 citations, 0.08%
Psychological Assessment
39 citations, 0.07%
Psychiatry Research
39 citations, 0.07%
American Journal of Epidemiology
39 citations, 0.07%
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
39 citations, 0.07%
International Migration Review
39 citations, 0.07%
Social Problems
38 citations, 0.07%
International Journal of Drug Policy
37 citations, 0.07%
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Elsevier
8372 citations, 15.55%
Springer Nature
7764 citations, 14.42%
SAGE
7020 citations, 13.04%
Taylor & Francis
5987 citations, 11.12%
Wiley
5387 citations, 10.01%
Emerald
1781 citations, 3.31%
Oxford University Press
1577 citations, 2.93%
Cambridge University Press
1487 citations, 2.76%
American Psychological Association (APA)
1393 citations, 2.59%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
1188 citations, 2.21%
MDPI
1088 citations, 2.02%
Frontiers Media S.A.
771 citations, 1.43%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
693 citations, 1.29%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
578 citations, 1.07%
University of Chicago Press
449 citations, 0.83%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
364 citations, 0.68%
Annual Reviews
344 citations, 0.64%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
279 citations, 0.52%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
237 citations, 0.44%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
203 citations, 0.38%
American Educational Research Association
197 citations, 0.37%
BMJ
186 citations, 0.35%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
180 citations, 0.33%
IGI Global
175 citations, 0.33%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
162 citations, 0.3%
Academy of Management
111 citations, 0.21%
Walter de Gruyter
105 citations, 0.2%
JMIR Publications
99 citations, 0.18%
Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
85 citations, 0.16%
Mary Ann Liebert
79 citations, 0.15%
SciELO
77 citations, 0.14%
American Marketing Association
76 citations, 0.14%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
75 citations, 0.14%
World Scientific
69 citations, 0.13%
American Public Health Association
62 citations, 0.12%
Hindawi Limited
59 citations, 0.11%
American Physical Society (APS)
55 citations, 0.1%
CAIRN
53 citations, 0.1%
IOP Publishing
51 citations, 0.09%
American Accounting Association
49 citations, 0.09%
Cornell University Press
49 citations, 0.09%
The Royal Society
48 citations, 0.09%
MIT Press
48 citations, 0.09%
Society for Sociological Science
43 citations, 0.08%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
41 citations, 0.08%
Editions Ophrys
39 citations, 0.07%
Carnegie Mellon University
35 citations, 0.07%
Consortium Erudit
34 citations, 0.06%
European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)
32 citations, 0.06%
Scientific Research Publishing
32 citations, 0.06%
American Astronomical Society
31 citations, 0.06%
Duke University Press
30 citations, 0.06%
Stata Press
29 citations, 0.05%
American Medical Association (AMA)
28 citations, 0.05%
EDP Sciences
27 citations, 0.05%
OpenEdition
27 citations, 0.05%
Society for Neuroscience
23 citations, 0.04%
Human Kinetics
23 citations, 0.04%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
22 citations, 0.04%
American Economic Association
22 citations, 0.04%
Behaviormetric Society of Japan
21 citations, 0.04%
JSTOR
20 citations, 0.04%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
19 citations, 0.04%
AIP Publishing
18 citations, 0.03%
American Academy of Pediatrics
17 citations, 0.03%
N T C Publications Ltd.
16 citations, 0.03%
IOS Press
15 citations, 0.03%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
14 citations, 0.03%
American Speech Language Hearing Association
14 citations, 0.03%
PeerJ
13 citations, 0.02%
Association for the Sociology of Religion
13 citations, 0.02%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
12 citations, 0.02%
Statistics Sweden
12 citations, 0.02%
Guilford Publications
12 citations, 0.02%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
10 citations, 0.02%
S. Karger AG
10 citations, 0.02%
University of California Press
9 citations, 0.02%
Springer Publishing Company
9 citations, 0.02%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
9 citations, 0.02%
Brill
8 citations, 0.01%
Verlag Hans Huber AG
8 citations, 0.01%
F1000 Research
8 citations, 0.01%
AOSIS
8 citations, 0.01%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
7 citations, 0.01%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
7 citations, 0.01%
Canadian Science Publishing
7 citations, 0.01%
CSIRO Publishing
7 citations, 0.01%
Bristol University Press
7 citations, 0.01%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
7 citations, 0.01%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
6 citations, 0.01%
Health Affairs (Project Hope)
6 citations, 0.01%
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
6 citations, 0.01%
Wayne State University Press
6 citations, 0.01%
Royal College of Psychiatrists
6 citations, 0.01%
Cognizant, LLC
6 citations, 0.01%
Cellule MathDoc/Centre Mersenne
6 citations, 0.01%
American Psychiatric Association Publishing
6 citations, 0.01%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
6 citations, 0.01%
Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
6 citations, 0.01%
Trans Tech Publications
5 citations, 0.01%
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University of Chicago
27 publications, 3.43%
University of Michigan
19 publications, 2.41%
University of California, Los Angeles
18 publications, 2.28%
Tilburg University
18 publications, 2.28%
University of California, Berkeley
17 publications, 2.16%
University of California, Irvine
17 publications, 2.16%
Pennsylvania State University
16 publications, 2.03%
Stanford University
14 publications, 1.78%
Harvard University
14 publications, 1.78%
University of Washington
13 publications, 1.65%
Princeton University
12 publications, 1.52%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
12 publications, 1.52%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12 publications, 1.52%
Cornell University
11 publications, 1.4%
Duke University
9 publications, 1.14%
University of Groningen
9 publications, 1.14%
University of Oxford
8 publications, 1.02%
University of Maryland, College Park
8 publications, 1.02%
Yale University
7 publications, 0.89%
Columbia University
7 publications, 0.89%
Northwestern University
7 publications, 0.89%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
6 publications, 0.76%
University of Pennsylvania
6 publications, 0.76%
University of Geneva
5 publications, 0.63%
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
5 publications, 0.63%
Purdue University
5 publications, 0.63%
Humboldt University of Berlin
4 publications, 0.51%
University of Melbourne
4 publications, 0.51%
Ohio State University
4 publications, 0.51%
University of Notre Dame
4 publications, 0.51%
Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest)
4 publications, 0.51%
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
4 publications, 0.51%
Emory University
4 publications, 0.51%
Indiana University Bloomington
4 publications, 0.51%
University of Oregon
4 publications, 0.51%
University of Lausanne
3 publications, 0.38%
University College London
3 publications, 0.38%
London School of Economics and Political Science
3 publications, 0.38%
University of Southern California
3 publications, 0.38%
Michigan State University
3 publications, 0.38%
Iowa State University
3 publications, 0.38%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
3 publications, 0.38%
University of Bristol
3 publications, 0.38%
University of Minnesota
3 publications, 0.38%
Utrecht University
3 publications, 0.38%
Brown University
3 publications, 0.38%
University of Toronto
3 publications, 0.38%
University of South Carolina
3 publications, 0.38%
Ege University
2 publications, 0.25%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2 publications, 0.25%
Karolinska Institute
2 publications, 0.25%
Linköping University
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Helsinki
2 publications, 0.25%
ETH Zurich
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Bern
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Bologna
2 publications, 0.25%
Renmin University of China
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Copenhagen
2 publications, 0.25%
Carnegie Mellon University
2 publications, 0.25%
George Mason University
2 publications, 0.25%
New York University
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Arizona
2 publications, 0.25%
Loyola University Chicago
2 publications, 0.25%
Northeastern University
2 publications, 0.25%
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Texas at Austin
2 publications, 0.25%
Vanderbilt University
2 publications, 0.25%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2 publications, 0.25%
Leiden University
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Amsterdam
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Wuppertal
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Florida
2 publications, 0.25%
University of North Texas
2 publications, 0.25%
Texas A&M University
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Montpellier
2 publications, 0.25%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2 publications, 0.25%
New York University Abu Dhabi
1 publication, 0.13%
Sabanci University
1 publication, 0.13%
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
1 publication, 0.13%
Zhejiang University
1 publication, 0.13%
Peking University
1 publication, 0.13%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
1 publication, 0.13%
Chalmers University of Technology
1 publication, 0.13%
Radboud University Nijmegen
1 publication, 0.13%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1 publication, 0.13%
Tampere University
1 publication, 0.13%
University of Zurich
1 publication, 0.13%
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
1 publication, 0.13%
China University of Political Science and Law
1 publication, 0.13%
University of Milan
1 publication, 0.13%
University of Turku
1 publication, 0.13%
Autonomous University of Barcelona
1 publication, 0.13%
Université Catholique de Louvain
1 publication, 0.13%
Nanyang Technological University
1 publication, 0.13%
Nord University
1 publication, 0.13%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.13%
University of Jyväskylä
1 publication, 0.13%
Aarhus University
1 publication, 0.13%
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 publications, 6.85%
University of Chicago
4 publications, 5.48%
Pennsylvania State University
3 publications, 4.11%
Stanford University
3 publications, 4.11%
Princeton University
3 publications, 4.11%
University of California, Los Angeles
3 publications, 4.11%
University of Geneva
2 publications, 2.74%
Renmin University of China
2 publications, 2.74%
University of Oxford
2 publications, 2.74%
University of Copenhagen
2 publications, 2.74%
Cornell University
2 publications, 2.74%
Yale University
2 publications, 2.74%
Columbia University
2 publications, 2.74%
Duke University
2 publications, 2.74%
University of California, Berkeley
2 publications, 2.74%
University of California, Irvine
2 publications, 2.74%
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2 publications, 2.74%
Purdue University
2 publications, 2.74%
University of Maryland, College Park
2 publications, 2.74%
University of Pennsylvania
2 publications, 2.74%
University of Toronto
2 publications, 2.74%
New York University Abu Dhabi
1 publication, 1.37%
Sabanci University
1 publication, 1.37%
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
1 publication, 1.37%
Zhejiang University
1 publication, 1.37%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 1.37%
Linköping University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Zurich
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Bern
1 publication, 1.37%
China University of Political Science and Law
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Milan
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Turku
1 publication, 1.37%
Autonomous University of Barcelona
1 publication, 1.37%
University College London
1 publication, 1.37%
Nord University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Jyväskylä
1 publication, 1.37%
Maastricht University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Southern California
1 publication, 1.37%
Stony Brook University
1 publication, 1.37%
Scuola Normale Superiore
1 publication, 1.37%
Monash University
1 publication, 1.37%
Washington State University
1 publication, 1.37%
Chinese University of Hong Kong
1 publication, 1.37%
City University of Hong Kong
1 publication, 1.37%
Northwestern University
1 publication, 1.37%
Hong Kong Baptist University
1 publication, 1.37%
Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
1 publication, 1.37%
Harvard University
1 publication, 1.37%
New York University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Washington
1 publication, 1.37%
University of California, Riverside
1 publication, 1.37%
Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest)
1 publication, 1.37%
Georgia State University
1 publication, 1.37%
Vanderbilt University
1 publication, 1.37%
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Bristol
1 publication, 1.37%
GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences
1 publication, 1.37%
Boston College
1 publication, 1.37%
Utrecht University
1 publication, 1.37%
Brown University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Groningen
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Bremen
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Wuppertal
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1 publication, 1.37%
Kozminski University
1 publication, 1.37%
York University
1 publication, 1.37%
Western University
1 publication, 1.37%
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
1 publication, 1.37%
Wake Forest University
1 publication, 1.37%
Indiana University Bloomington
1 publication, 1.37%
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
1 publication, 1.37%
Toulouse 1 Capitole University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Georgia
1 publication, 1.37%
Montana State University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Virginia
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Oregon
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Wyoming
1 publication, 1.37%
California State University, Dominguez Hills
1 publication, 1.37%
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USA, 277, 35.15%
USA
277 publications, 35.15%
Netherlands, 35, 4.44%
Netherlands
35 publications, 4.44%
United Kingdom, 24, 3.05%
United Kingdom
24 publications, 3.05%
Germany, 19, 2.41%
Germany
19 publications, 2.41%
Switzerland, 12, 1.52%
Switzerland
12 publications, 1.52%
Italy, 8, 1.02%
Italy
8 publications, 1.02%
Canada, 8, 1.02%
Canada
8 publications, 1.02%
Australia, 6, 0.76%
Australia
6 publications, 0.76%
Sweden, 6, 0.76%
Sweden
6 publications, 0.76%
China, 5, 0.63%
China
5 publications, 0.63%
Hungary, 4, 0.51%
Hungary
4 publications, 0.51%
Finland, 4, 0.51%
Finland
4 publications, 0.51%
France, 3, 0.38%
France
3 publications, 0.38%
Denmark, 3, 0.38%
Denmark
3 publications, 0.38%
Spain, 3, 0.38%
Spain
3 publications, 0.38%
Turkey, 3, 0.38%
Turkey
3 publications, 0.38%
Belgium, 2, 0.25%
Belgium
2 publications, 0.25%
Israel, 2, 0.25%
Israel
2 publications, 0.25%
Vietnam, 1, 0.13%
Vietnam
1 publication, 0.13%
Greece, 1, 0.13%
Greece
1 publication, 0.13%
India, 1, 0.13%
India
1 publication, 0.13%
Indonesia, 1, 0.13%
Indonesia
1 publication, 0.13%
Nepal, 1, 0.13%
Nepal
1 publication, 0.13%
Norway, 1, 0.13%
Norway
1 publication, 0.13%
UAE, 1, 0.13%
UAE
1 publication, 0.13%
Poland, 1, 0.13%
Poland
1 publication, 0.13%
Singapore, 1, 0.13%
Singapore
1 publication, 0.13%
South Africa, 1, 0.13%
South Africa
1 publication, 0.13%
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USA, 42, 57.53%
USA
42 publications, 57.53%
Germany, 5, 6.85%
Germany
5 publications, 6.85%
United Kingdom, 4, 5.48%
United Kingdom
4 publications, 5.48%
Switzerland, 4, 5.48%
Switzerland
4 publications, 5.48%
China, 3, 4.11%
China
3 publications, 4.11%
Canada, 3, 4.11%
Canada
3 publications, 4.11%
Netherlands, 3, 4.11%
Netherlands
3 publications, 4.11%
Denmark, 2, 2.74%
Denmark
2 publications, 2.74%
Italy, 2, 2.74%
Italy
2 publications, 2.74%
France, 1, 1.37%
France
1 publication, 1.37%
Australia, 1, 1.37%
Australia
1 publication, 1.37%
Belgium, 1, 1.37%
Belgium
1 publication, 1.37%
Hungary, 1, 1.37%
Hungary
1 publication, 1.37%
Vietnam, 1, 1.37%
Vietnam
1 publication, 1.37%
India, 1, 1.37%
India
1 publication, 1.37%
Indonesia, 1, 1.37%
Indonesia
1 publication, 1.37%
Spain, 1, 1.37%
Spain
1 publication, 1.37%
Norway, 1, 1.37%
Norway
1 publication, 1.37%
UAE, 1, 1.37%
UAE
1 publication, 1.37%
Poland, 1, 1.37%
Poland
1 publication, 1.37%
Turkey, 1, 1.37%
Turkey
1 publication, 1.37%
Finland, 1, 1.37%
Finland
1 publication, 1.37%
Sweden, 1, 1.37%
Sweden
1 publication, 1.37%
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