American Journal of Sociology

University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 00029602, 15375390

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SCImago
Q1
WOS
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Impact factor
3.6
SJR
2.811
CiteScore
6.4
Categories
Sociology and Political Science
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1946-1950, 1964-2025
journal names
American Journal of Sociology
Publications
26 835
Citations
508 322
h-index
309
Publications
920
Citations
143 769
Top-3 citing journals
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (12259 citations)
Social Science Research
Social Science Research (4417 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Michigan
University of Michigan (38 publications)
Harvard University
Harvard University (32 publications)
University of Michigan
University of Michigan (14 publications)
Florida State University
Florida State University (4 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (567 publications)
Italy (28 publications)
Canada (12 publications)
USA (10 publications)
China (1 publication)
Russia (1 publication)
Top-1 researchers by articles count

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Citing journals

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SSRN Electronic Journal
12259 citations, 2.41%
American Journal of Sociology
5242 citations, 1.03%
Social Science Research
4417 citations, 0.87%
American Sociological Review
4103 citations, 0.81%
Organization Science
3420 citations, 0.67%
Sociological Quarterly
3130 citations, 0.62%
Social Networks
2753 citations, 0.54%
Academy of Management Journal
2567 citations, 0.5%
Annual Review of Sociology
2395 citations, 0.47%
Administrative Science Quarterly
2090 citations, 0.41%
Demography
1901 citations, 0.37%
Criminology
1882 citations, 0.37%
Social Forces
1828 citations, 0.36%
Social Science and Medicine
1823 citations, 0.36%
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
1625 citations, 0.32%
Organization Studies
1604 citations, 0.32%
Strategic Management Journal
1600 citations, 0.31%
Research in the Sociology of Organizations
1588 citations, 0.31%
Academy of Management Review
1388 citations, 0.27%
Journal of Marriage and Family
1364 citations, 0.27%
Sociological Perspectives
1344 citations, 0.26%
Sustainability
1306 citations, 0.26%
PLoS ONE
1302 citations, 0.26%
Poetics
1196 citations, 0.24%
Sociological Forum
1185 citations, 0.23%
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
1125 citations, 0.22%
Sociology Compass
1106 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Family Issues
1106 citations, 0.22%
Sociological Methods and Research
1099 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Business Research
1078 citations, 0.21%
Sociological Theory
1056 citations, 0.21%
Sociological Inquiry
1001 citations, 0.2%
Work and Occupations
981 citations, 0.19%
Justice Quarterly
955 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Management
932 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Business Ethics
928 citations, 0.18%
Research Policy
917 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Management Studies
908 citations, 0.18%
European Sociological Review
904 citations, 0.18%
Urban Studies
885 citations, 0.17%
American Behavioral Scientist
878 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Criminal Justice
869 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
864 citations, 0.17%
International Migration Review
860 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
848 citations, 0.17%
Social Problems
847 citations, 0.17%
Crime and Delinquency
830 citations, 0.16%
Symbolic Interaction
819 citations, 0.16%
Human Relations
818 citations, 0.16%
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
809 citations, 0.16%
Theory and Society
797 citations, 0.16%
Sociological Focus
785 citations, 0.15%
The American Sociologist
745 citations, 0.15%
Social Indicators Research
727 citations, 0.14%
Ethnic and Racial Studies
706 citations, 0.14%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
694 citations, 0.14%
Academy of Management Annals
668 citations, 0.13%
City and Community
620 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
618 citations, 0.12%
Deviant Behavior
613 citations, 0.12%
Socio-Economic Review
600 citations, 0.12%
Sex Roles
591 citations, 0.12%
Management Science
585 citations, 0.12%
Social Psychology Quarterly
553 citations, 0.11%
Industrial Marketing Management
542 citations, 0.11%
Gender and Society
540 citations, 0.11%
Frontiers in Psychology
536 citations, 0.11%
Sociology
522 citations, 0.1%
Social Movement Studies
516 citations, 0.1%
Qualitative Sociology
505 citations, 0.1%
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
501 citations, 0.1%
Acta Sociologica
499 citations, 0.1%
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
497 citations, 0.1%
Current Sociology
490 citations, 0.1%
Law and Society Review
490 citations, 0.1%
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
465 citations, 0.09%
British Journal of Sociology
449 citations, 0.09%
Canadian Review of Sociology
444 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Urban Affairs
444 citations, 0.09%
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
443 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Mathematical Sociology
440 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Business Venturing
436 citations, 0.09%
Population Research and Policy Review
432 citations, 0.08%
Rationality and Society
429 citations, 0.08%
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
426 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
421 citations, 0.08%
Environment and Planning A
407 citations, 0.08%
Sociological Spectrum
405 citations, 0.08%
Review of Educational Research
404 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
403 citations, 0.08%
International Sociology
387 citations, 0.08%
Advances in Group Processes
384 citations, 0.08%
Sociology of Education
381 citations, 0.07%
Scientific Reports
378 citations, 0.07%
Advances in Life Course Research
376 citations, 0.07%
Accounting, Organizations and Society
368 citations, 0.07%
Regional Studies
367 citations, 0.07%
Rural Sociology
365 citations, 0.07%
Psychological Bulletin
361 citations, 0.07%
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
361 citations, 0.07%
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SAGE
78125 citations, 15.37%
Taylor & Francis
59663 citations, 11.74%
Elsevier
56496 citations, 11.11%
Wiley
55656 citations, 10.95%
Springer Nature
54985 citations, 10.82%
Cambridge University Press
31396 citations, 6.18%
Emerald
21625 citations, 4.25%
Oxford University Press
13950 citations, 2.74%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
11862 citations, 2.33%
University of Chicago Press
7431 citations, 1.46%
Academy of Management
5889 citations, 1.16%
MDPI
5572 citations, 1.1%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
5100 citations, 1%
Annual Reviews
4351 citations, 0.86%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
4186 citations, 0.82%
CAIRN
3522 citations, 0.69%
American Psychological Association (APA)
3449 citations, 0.68%
IGI Global
2818 citations, 0.55%
Frontiers Media S.A.
2196 citations, 0.43%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1957 citations, 0.38%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1873 citations, 0.37%
Walter de Gruyter
1729 citations, 0.34%
OpenEdition
1640 citations, 0.32%
SciELO
1160 citations, 0.23%
Consortium Erudit
952 citations, 0.19%
American Educational Research Association
928 citations, 0.18%
Duke University Press
843 citations, 0.17%
World Scientific
776 citations, 0.15%
Cornell University Press
752 citations, 0.15%
University of California Press
580 citations, 0.11%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
515 citations, 0.1%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
507 citations, 0.1%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
496 citations, 0.1%
American Physical Society (APS)
493 citations, 0.1%
Society for Sociological Science
468 citations, 0.09%
Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
435 citations, 0.09%
American Economic Association
423 citations, 0.08%
American Public Health Association
336 citations, 0.07%
IOP Publishing
316 citations, 0.06%
American Marketing Association
304 citations, 0.06%
Brill
302 citations, 0.06%
MIT Press
278 citations, 0.05%
Hindawi Limited
274 citations, 0.05%
Editions Ophrys
269 citations, 0.05%
The Royal Society
261 citations, 0.05%
Association for the Sociology of Religion
257 citations, 0.05%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
254 citations, 0.05%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
250 citations, 0.05%
BMJ
245 citations, 0.05%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
236 citations, 0.05%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
215 citations, 0.04%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
213 citations, 0.04%
JSTOR
197 citations, 0.04%
Bristol University Press
166 citations, 0.03%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
161 citations, 0.03%
National Recreation and Park Association
160 citations, 0.03%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
157 citations, 0.03%
Human Kinetics
137 citations, 0.03%
Scientific Research Publishing
136 citations, 0.03%
Virtus Interpress
133 citations, 0.03%
JMIR Publications
122 citations, 0.02%
AIP Publishing
117 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
112 citations, 0.02%
American Accounting Association
104 citations, 0.02%
Royal College of Psychiatrists
103 citations, 0.02%
Mary Ann Liebert
100 citations, 0.02%
Guilford Publications
94 citations, 0.02%
Akademiai Kiado
90 citations, 0.02%
Intellect
90 citations, 0.02%
SLACK
78 citations, 0.02%
Cognizant, LLC
75 citations, 0.01%
Springer Publishing Company
74 citations, 0.01%
EDP Sciences
70 citations, 0.01%
Berghahn Books
68 citations, 0.01%
Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro
67 citations, 0.01%
Cogitatio
66 citations, 0.01%
Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administracao de Empresas de Sao Paulo
62 citations, 0.01%
AOSIS
61 citations, 0.01%
Equinox Publishing
57 citations, 0.01%
IMR Press
56 citations, 0.01%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
56 citations, 0.01%
University of Illinois Press
55 citations, 0.01%
Project MUSE
54 citations, 0.01%
Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)
53 citations, 0.01%
IOS Press
48 citations, 0.01%
Society for Personality Research
48 citations, 0.01%
Carnegie Mellon University
47 citations, 0.01%
F1000 Research
47 citations, 0.01%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
46 citations, 0.01%
Behaviormetric Society of Japan
45 citations, 0.01%
Editorial CSIC
45 citations, 0.01%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
42 citations, 0.01%
American Medical Association (AMA)
41 citations, 0.01%
American Academy of Pediatrics
40 citations, 0.01%
Masaryk University Press
40 citations, 0.01%
Linkoping University Electronic Press
39 citations, 0.01%
Biola University
39 citations, 0.01%
IntechOpen
39 citations, 0.01%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
39 citations, 0.01%
Hans Publishers
39 citations, 0.01%
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University of Michigan
38 publications, 0.14%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
33 publications, 0.12%
Harvard University
32 publications, 0.12%
Stanford University
28 publications, 0.1%
Columbia University
24 publications, 0.09%
University of California, Berkeley
23 publications, 0.09%
Ohio State University
22 publications, 0.08%
University of California, Los Angeles
22 publications, 0.08%
University of Chicago
22 publications, 0.08%
Cornell University
21 publications, 0.08%
Princeton University
19 publications, 0.07%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
18 publications, 0.07%
University of Pennsylvania
17 publications, 0.06%
Indiana University Bloomington
16 publications, 0.06%
Brown University
15 publications, 0.06%
University of Texas at Austin
14 publications, 0.05%
University of Washington
13 publications, 0.05%
Pennsylvania State University
12 publications, 0.04%
Northwestern University
12 publications, 0.04%
University of California, Irvine
12 publications, 0.04%
Duke University
11 publications, 0.04%
University at Albany, State University of New York
11 publications, 0.04%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10 publications, 0.04%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
10 publications, 0.04%
New York University
9 publications, 0.03%
University of California, Santa Barbara
9 publications, 0.03%
University of Iowa
9 publications, 0.03%
University of Notre Dame
8 publications, 0.03%
University of Minnesota
8 publications, 0.03%
Florida State University
7 publications, 0.03%
Yale University
7 publications, 0.03%
Johns Hopkins University
7 publications, 0.03%
University of California, San Diego
7 publications, 0.03%
University of Arizona
7 publications, 0.03%
Vanderbilt University
7 publications, 0.03%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
6 publications, 0.02%
Stockholm University
5 publications, 0.02%
University of California, Davis
5 publications, 0.02%
Emory University
5 publications, 0.02%
Michigan State University
4 publications, 0.01%
George Washington University
4 publications, 0.01%
Boston University
4 publications, 0.01%
North Carolina State University
4 publications, 0.01%
Chinese University of Hong Kong
4 publications, 0.01%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
4 publications, 0.01%
Utrecht University
4 publications, 0.01%
Cleveland State University
4 publications, 0.01%
University of Copenhagen
3 publications, 0.01%
London School of Economics and Political Science
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Southern California
3 publications, 0.01%
University of California, Riverside
3 publications, 0.01%
Purdue University
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Maryland, College Park
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Colorado Boulder
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
3 publications, 0.01%
Brandeis University
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Georgia
3 publications, 0.01%
Bowling Green State University
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Virginia
3 publications, 0.01%
University of South Carolina
3 publications, 0.01%
Tel Aviv University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Oxford
2 publications, 0.01%
Copenhagen Business School
2 publications, 0.01%
Stony Brook University
2 publications, 0.01%
Western Washington University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Illinois at Chicago
2 publications, 0.01%
University of California, San Francisco
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2 publications, 0.01%
McGill University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of British Columbia
2 publications, 0.01%
Purdue University Northwest
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Amsterdam
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Toronto
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Kentucky
2 publications, 0.01%
Louisiana State University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Utah
2 publications, 0.01%
National Institute of Mental Health
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Missouri–St. Louis
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Missouri
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Akron
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Vermont
2 publications, 0.01%
National Research University Higher School of Economics
1 publication, 0%
Sabanci University
1 publication, 0%
Boğaziçi University
1 publication, 0%
American University of Sharjah
1 publication, 0%
Peking University
1 publication, 0%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1 publication, 0%
Istanbul Åžehir University
1 publication, 0%
University of Haifa
1 publication, 0%
Free University of Berlin
1 publication, 0%
ETH Zurich
1 publication, 0%
University of Gothenburg
1 publication, 0%
Università della Svizzera italiana
1 publication, 0%
University of Bologna
1 publication, 0%
Nanyang Technological University
1 publication, 0%
University College London
1 publication, 0%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0%
Aarhus University
1 publication, 0%
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University of Michigan
14 publications, 1.52%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6 publications, 0.65%
Florida State University
4 publications, 0.43%
Princeton University
4 publications, 0.43%
Harvard University
4 publications, 0.43%
Ohio State University
4 publications, 0.43%
Brown University
4 publications, 0.43%
Cornell University
3 publications, 0.33%
Boston University
3 publications, 0.33%
Northwestern University
3 publications, 0.33%
University of California, Berkeley
3 publications, 0.33%
New York University
3 publications, 0.33%
University of California, Los Angeles
3 publications, 0.33%
University of California, Irvine
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Chicago
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Texas at Austin
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Notre Dame
3 publications, 0.33%
Indiana University Bloomington
3 publications, 0.33%
Copenhagen Business School
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Southern California
2 publications, 0.22%
Johns Hopkins University
2 publications, 0.22%
Stanford University
2 publications, 0.22%
Columbia University
2 publications, 0.22%
George Washington University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Washington
2 publications, 0.22%
University of California, San Francisco
2 publications, 0.22%
University of California, Santa Barbara
2 publications, 0.22%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2 publications, 0.22%
Emory University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Pennsylvania
2 publications, 0.22%
National Research University Higher School of Economics
1 publication, 0.11%
American University of Sharjah
1 publication, 0.11%
Peking University
1 publication, 0.11%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1 publication, 0.11%
Stockholm University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Gothenburg
1 publication, 0.11%
Nanyang Technological University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Copenhagen
1 publication, 0.11%
Aarhus University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Manchester
1 publication, 0.11%
London School of Economics and Political Science
1 publication, 0.11%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.11%
William Marsh Rice University
1 publication, 0.11%
National University of Singapore
1 publication, 0.11%
National Taiwan University
1 publication, 0.11%
Drexel University
1 publication, 0.11%
Michigan State University
1 publication, 0.11%
Yale University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Sydney
1 publication, 0.11%
Iowa State University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Rwanda
1 publication, 0.11%
North Carolina State University
1 publication, 0.11%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1 publication, 0.11%
Duke University
1 publication, 0.11%
Syracuse University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of California, Davis
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Arizona
1 publication, 0.11%
University of California, Riverside
1 publication, 0.11%
University of California, Merced
1 publication, 0.11%
Loyola University Chicago
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Central Florida
1 publication, 0.11%
McGill University
1 publication, 0.11%
Dartmouth College
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Minnesota
1 publication, 0.11%
Purdue University
1 publication, 0.11%
Azim Premji University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Amsterdam
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Leeds
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Toronto
1 publication, 0.11%
Institute for Economic Analysis
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Kentucky
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1 publication, 0.11%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Colorado Boulder
1 publication, 0.11%
City College of New York
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1 publication, 0.11%
San Jose State University
1 publication, 0.11%
Brandeis University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1 publication, 0.11%
Georgia Southern University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Iowa
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Virginia
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Dayton
1 publication, 0.11%
Furman University
1 publication, 0.11%
University at Albany, State University of New York
1 publication, 0.11%
Montclair State University
1 publication, 0.11%
Trinity University
1 publication, 0.11%
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USA, 567, 2.11%
USA
567 publications, 2.11%
Italy, 28, 0.1%
Italy
28 publications, 0.1%
Canada, 12, 0.04%
Canada
12 publications, 0.04%
United Kingdom, 10, 0.04%
United Kingdom
10 publications, 0.04%
China, 7, 0.03%
China
7 publications, 0.03%
Netherlands, 7, 0.03%
Netherlands
7 publications, 0.03%
France, 4, 0.01%
France
4 publications, 0.01%
Mexico, 4, 0.01%
Mexico
4 publications, 0.01%
Republic of Korea, 4, 0.01%
Republic of Korea
4 publications, 0.01%
Sweden, 4, 0.01%
Sweden
4 publications, 0.01%
Denmark, 3, 0.01%
Denmark
3 publications, 0.01%
Israel, 3, 0.01%
Israel
3 publications, 0.01%
Turkey, 3, 0.01%
Turkey
3 publications, 0.01%
Germany, 2, 0.01%
Germany
2 publications, 0.01%
Australia, 2, 0.01%
Australia
2 publications, 0.01%
Switzerland, 2, 0.01%
Switzerland
2 publications, 0.01%
Japan, 2, 0.01%
Japan
2 publications, 0.01%
Russia, 1, 0%
Russia
1 publication, 0%
Austria, 1, 0%
Austria
1 publication, 0%
Argentina, 1, 0%
Argentina
1 publication, 0%
Belgium, 1, 0%
Belgium
1 publication, 0%
Spain, 1, 0%
Spain
1 publication, 0%
Montenegro, 1, 0%
Montenegro
1 publication, 0%
Chile, 1, 0%
Chile
1 publication, 0%
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Publishing countries in 5 years

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USA, 10, 1.09%
USA
10 publications, 1.09%
Russia, 1, 0.11%
Russia
1 publication, 0.11%
China, 1, 0.11%
China
1 publication, 0.11%
Republic of Korea, 1, 0.11%
Republic of Korea
1 publication, 0.11%
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