American Journal of Sociology

University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 00029602, 15375390
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
4.4
SJR
2.290
CiteScore
5.8
Categories
Sociology and Political Science
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1946-1950, 1964-2024
Publications
26 724
Citations
480 550
h-index
300
Publications
1 084
Citations
145 396
Top-3 citing journals
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (12059 citations)
Social Science Research
Social Science Research (4319 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Harvard University
Harvard University (28 publications)
Stanford University
Stanford University (26 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (561 publications)
Italy (28 publications)
Canada (12 publications)
USA (8 publications)
China (1 publication)
Russia (1 publication)

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SSRN Electronic Journal
12059 citations, 2.51%
American Journal of Sociology
5072 citations, 1.06%
Social Science Research
4319 citations, 0.9%
Organization Science
3348 citations, 0.7%
American Sociological Review
3280 citations, 0.68%
Sociological Quarterly
3140 citations, 0.65%
Social Networks
2650 citations, 0.55%
Academy of Management Journal
2523 citations, 0.53%
Annual Review of Sociology
2323 citations, 0.48%
Administrative Science Quarterly
2031 citations, 0.42%
Criminology
1852 citations, 0.39%
Demography
1847 citations, 0.38%
Social Science and Medicine
1737 citations, 0.36%
Social Forces
1651 citations, 0.34%
Research in the Sociology of Organizations
1593 citations, 0.33%
Organization Studies
1584 citations, 0.33%
Strategic Management Journal
1521 citations, 0.32%
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
1489 citations, 0.31%
Sociological Perspectives
1384 citations, 0.29%
Academy of Management Review
1375 citations, 0.29%
Journal of Marriage and Family
1273 citations, 0.26%
PLoS ONE
1223 citations, 0.25%
Sustainability
1212 citations, 0.25%
Sociological Forum
1193 citations, 0.25%
Journal of Family Issues
1098 citations, 0.23%
Poetics
1094 citations, 0.23%
Sociology Compass
1066 citations, 0.22%
Sociological Methods and Research
1049 citations, 0.22%
Sociological Theory
1040 citations, 0.22%
Sociological Inquiry
1008 citations, 0.21%
Journal of Business Research
997 citations, 0.21%
Work and Occupations
965 citations, 0.2%
Justice Quarterly
926 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Management
911 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Business Ethics
893 citations, 0.19%
Research Policy
889 citations, 0.18%
Urban Studies
875 citations, 0.18%
American Behavioral Scientist
874 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
853 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Management Studies
836 citations, 0.17%
European Sociological Review
835 citations, 0.17%
Human Relations
825 citations, 0.17%
International Migration Review
820 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
804 citations, 0.17%
Crime and Delinquency
802 citations, 0.17%
Social Problems
795 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Criminal Justice
790 citations, 0.16%
Sociological Focus
789 citations, 0.16%
Symbolic Interaction
787 citations, 0.16%
Theory and Society
769 citations, 0.16%
Social Indicators Research
713 citations, 0.15%
The American Sociologist
701 citations, 0.15%
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
689 citations, 0.14%
Ethnic and Racial Studies
683 citations, 0.14%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
668 citations, 0.14%
Academy of Management Annals
657 citations, 0.14%
City and Community
610 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
600 citations, 0.12%
Deviant Behavior
594 citations, 0.12%
Sex Roles
586 citations, 0.12%
Management Science
569 citations, 0.12%
Industrial Marketing Management
550 citations, 0.11%
Social Psychology Quarterly
544 citations, 0.11%
Sociology
531 citations, 0.11%
Gender and Society
524 citations, 0.11%
Socio-Economic Review
522 citations, 0.11%
Social Movement Studies
503 citations, 0.1%
Current Sociology
498 citations, 0.1%
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
498 citations, 0.1%
Acta Sociologica
497 citations, 0.1%
Frontiers in Psychology
491 citations, 0.1%
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
487 citations, 0.1%
Qualitative Sociology
482 citations, 0.1%
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
463 citations, 0.1%
Law and Society Review
450 citations, 0.09%
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
444 citations, 0.09%
Canadian Review of Sociology
444 citations, 0.09%
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
443 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Mathematical Sociology
436 citations, 0.09%
Rationality and Society
429 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Urban Affairs
429 citations, 0.09%
Population Research and Policy Review
428 citations, 0.09%
British Journal of Sociology
427 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Business Venturing
425 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
425 citations, 0.09%
Sociological Spectrum
414 citations, 0.09%
Environment and Planning A
408 citations, 0.08%
Review of Educational Research
405 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
399 citations, 0.08%
Advances in Group Processes
387 citations, 0.08%
International Sociology
387 citations, 0.08%
Sociology of Education
368 citations, 0.08%
Accounting, Organizations and Society
367 citations, 0.08%
Rural Sociology
367 citations, 0.08%
Advances in Life Course Research
359 citations, 0.07%
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
353 citations, 0.07%
Comparative Political Studies
350 citations, 0.07%
Quality and Quantity
345 citations, 0.07%
Journal of Social Psychology
345 citations, 0.07%
Scientometrics
340 citations, 0.07%
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SAGE
70910 citations, 14.76%
Taylor & Francis
56341 citations, 11.72%
Wiley
53074 citations, 11.04%
Elsevier
52039 citations, 10.83%
Springer Nature
48565 citations, 10.11%
Cambridge University Press
27627 citations, 5.75%
Emerald
20616 citations, 4.29%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
11962 citations, 2.49%
Oxford University Press
11421 citations, 2.38%
University of Chicago Press
7137 citations, 1.49%
Academy of Management
5685 citations, 1.18%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
4933 citations, 1.03%
MDPI
4766 citations, 0.99%
Annual Reviews
4194 citations, 0.87%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
3896 citations, 0.81%
CAIRN
3222 citations, 0.67%
IGI Global
2629 citations, 0.55%
Cornell University Press
2508 citations, 0.52%
Frontiers Media S.A.
1886 citations, 0.39%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1818 citations, 0.38%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1730 citations, 0.36%
OpenEdition
1574 citations, 0.33%
Walter de Gruyter
1480 citations, 0.31%
Consortium Erudit
949 citations, 0.2%
SciELO
931 citations, 0.19%
World Scientific
759 citations, 0.16%
American Educational Research Association
677 citations, 0.14%
American Psychological Association (APA)
616 citations, 0.13%
Duke University Press
553 citations, 0.12%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
478 citations, 0.1%
American Physical Society (APS)
473 citations, 0.1%
Society for Sociological Science
464 citations, 0.1%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
459 citations, 0.1%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
450 citations, 0.09%
Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
436 citations, 0.09%
American Economic Association
421 citations, 0.09%
University of California Press
413 citations, 0.09%
American Public Health Association
335 citations, 0.07%
American Marketing Association
315 citations, 0.07%
IOP Publishing
292 citations, 0.06%
Hindawi Limited
286 citations, 0.06%
Brill
277 citations, 0.06%
Editions Ophrys
268 citations, 0.06%
Association for the Sociology of Religion
258 citations, 0.05%
MIT Press
240 citations, 0.05%
BMJ
237 citations, 0.05%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
224 citations, 0.05%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
219 citations, 0.05%
The Royal Society
211 citations, 0.04%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
204 citations, 0.04%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
199 citations, 0.04%
172 citations, 0.04%
National Recreation and Park Association
160 citations, 0.03%
Bristol University Press
160 citations, 0.03%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
153 citations, 0.03%
Scientific Research Publishing
132 citations, 0.03%
Human Kinetics
131 citations, 0.03%
Virtus Interpress
128 citations, 0.03%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
124 citations, 0.03%
JMIR Publications
110 citations, 0.02%
AIP Publishing
105 citations, 0.02%
Royal College of Psychiatrists
103 citations, 0.02%
102 citations, 0.02%
American Accounting Association
97 citations, 0.02%
Guilford Publications
92 citations, 0.02%
Mary Ann Liebert
91 citations, 0.02%
JSTOR
89 citations, 0.02%
85 citations, 0.02%
Intellect
80 citations, 0.02%
Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administracao de Empresas de Sao Paulo
77 citations, 0.02%
SLACK
75 citations, 0.02%
Springer Publishing Company
74 citations, 0.02%
Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro
73 citations, 0.02%
72 citations, 0.01%
Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
72 citations, 0.01%
Berghahn Books
71 citations, 0.01%
Cognizant, LLC
68 citations, 0.01%
IOS Press
65 citations, 0.01%
EDP Sciences
65 citations, 0.01%
Akademiai Kiado
58 citations, 0.01%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
56 citations, 0.01%
University of Illinois Press
53 citations, 0.01%
Carnegie Mellon University
52 citations, 0.01%
AOSIS
52 citations, 0.01%
49 citations, 0.01%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
49 citations, 0.01%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
49 citations, 0.01%
Society for Personality Research
48 citations, 0.01%
Equinox Publishing
48 citations, 0.01%
Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)
46 citations, 0.01%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
42 citations, 0.01%
42 citations, 0.01%
Behaviormetric Society of Japan
42 citations, 0.01%
Biola University
41 citations, 0.01%
Masaryk University Press
39 citations, 0.01%
Cogitatio
39 citations, 0.01%
American Academy of Pediatrics
38 citations, 0.01%
Hans Publishers
37 citations, 0.01%
Pluto Journals
35 citations, 0.01%
American Medical Association (AMA)
35 citations, 0.01%
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Harvard University
28 publications, 0.1%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
27 publications, 0.1%
Stanford University
26 publications, 0.1%
University of Michigan
25 publications, 0.09%
Columbia University
22 publications, 0.08%
University of California, Berkeley
20 publications, 0.07%
Ohio State University
19 publications, 0.07%
University of California, Los Angeles
19 publications, 0.07%
University of Chicago
19 publications, 0.07%
Cornell University
18 publications, 0.07%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
17 publications, 0.06%
Princeton University
16 publications, 0.06%
University of Pennsylvania
15 publications, 0.06%
Indiana University Bloomington
13 publications, 0.05%
Pennsylvania State University
12 publications, 0.04%
University of Washington
11 publications, 0.04%
University of Texas at Austin
11 publications, 0.04%
Brown University
11 publications, 0.04%
Northwestern University
10 publications, 0.04%
Duke University
10 publications, 0.04%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9 publications, 0.03%
University of California, Irvine
9 publications, 0.03%
University of California, San Diego
7 publications, 0.03%
University of California, Santa Barbara
7 publications, 0.03%
Vanderbilt University
7 publications, 0.03%
University of Minnesota
7 publications, 0.03%
Yale University
6 publications, 0.02%
New York University
6 publications, 0.02%
University of Arizona
6 publications, 0.02%
Johns Hopkins University
5 publications, 0.02%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
5 publications, 0.02%
University of Notre Dame
5 publications, 0.02%
Stockholm University
4 publications, 0.01%
Chinese University of Hong Kong
4 publications, 0.01%
University of California, Davis
4 publications, 0.01%
Utrecht University
4 publications, 0.01%
Florida State University
3 publications, 0.01%
Michigan State University
3 publications, 0.01%
North Carolina State University
3 publications, 0.01%
Emory University
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Maryland, College Park
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
3 publications, 0.01%
Tel Aviv University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Oxford
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Copenhagen
2 publications, 0.01%
London School of Economics and Political Science
2 publications, 0.01%
Stony Brook University
2 publications, 0.01%
George Washington University
2 publications, 0.01%
Western Washington University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Illinois at Chicago
2 publications, 0.01%
University of California, Riverside
2 publications, 0.01%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2 publications, 0.01%
University of British Columbia
2 publications, 0.01%
Purdue University Northwest
2 publications, 0.01%
Purdue University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
2 publications, 0.01%
Louisiana State University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Colorado Boulder
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Utah
2 publications, 0.01%
National Institute of Mental Health
2 publications, 0.01%
National Research University Higher School of Economics
1 publication, 0%
Sabanci University
1 publication, 0%
Boğaziçi University
1 publication, 0%
Peking University
1 publication, 0%
Istanbul Şehir University
1 publication, 0%
University of Haifa
1 publication, 0%
Free University of Berlin
1 publication, 0%
ETH Zurich
1 publication, 0%
Università della Svizzera italiana
1 publication, 0%
University of Bologna
1 publication, 0%
University College London
1 publication, 0%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0%
University of Southern Denmark
1 publication, 0%
University of Antwerp
1 publication, 0%
University of Southern California
1 publication, 0%
University of Trento
1 publication, 0%
University of Melbourne
1 publication, 0%
University of Wollongong
1 publication, 0%
Georgetown University
1 publication, 0%
Boston University
1 publication, 0%
Washington State University
1 publication, 0%
Arizona State University
1 publication, 0%
University of Hong Kong
1 publication, 0%
Ewha Womans University
1 publication, 0%
George Mason University
1 publication, 0%
Northern Illinois University
1 publication, 0%
Newcastle University
1 publication, 0%
University of Aberdeen
1 publication, 0%
Northeastern University
1 publication, 0%
Central European University
1 publication, 0%
University of Buenos Aires
1 publication, 0%
Illinois Wesleyan University
1 publication, 0%
McGill University
1 publication, 0%
University of Macau
1 publication, 0%
Tulane University
1 publication, 0%
Tilburg University
1 publication, 0%
Hokkaido University
1 publication, 0%
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
1 publication, 0%
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National Research University Higher School of Economics
1 publication, 0.09%
Peking University
1 publication, 0.09%
Tel Aviv University
1 publication, 0.09%
Cornell University
1 publication, 0.09%
Pennsylvania State University
1 publication, 0.09%
Princeton University
1 publication, 0.09%
Northwestern University
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Washington
1 publication, 0.09%
Ohio State University
1 publication, 0.09%
University of California, Davis
1 publication, 0.09%
Northeastern University
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Chicago
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 0.09%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1 publication, 0.09%
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USA, 561, 2.1%
USA
561 publications, 2.1%
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%
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%
Republic of Korea, 3, 0.01%
Republic of Korea
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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USA
8 publications, 0.74%
Russia, 1, 0.09%
Russia
1 publication, 0.09%
China, 1, 0.09%
China
1 publication, 0.09%
Israel, 1, 0.09%
Israel
1 publication, 0.09%
Republic of Korea, 1, 0.09%
Republic of Korea
1 publication, 0.09%
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