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
26 850
Citations
510 392
h-index
310
Publications
935
Citations
145 588
Top-3 citing journals
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (12262 citations)
Social Science Research
Social Science Research (4431 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
12262 citations, 2.4%
American Journal of Sociology
5249 citations, 1.03%
Social Science Research
4431 citations, 0.87%
American Sociological Review
4125 citations, 0.81%
Organization Science
3422 citations, 0.67%
Sociological Quarterly
3130 citations, 0.61%
Social Networks
2766 citations, 0.54%
Academy of Management Journal
2567 citations, 0.5%
Annual Review of Sociology
2395 citations, 0.47%
Administrative Science Quarterly
2092 citations, 0.41%
Demography
1901 citations, 0.37%
Criminology
1889 citations, 0.37%
Social Forces
1850 citations, 0.36%
Social Science and Medicine
1828 citations, 0.36%
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
1633 citations, 0.32%
Organization Studies
1611 citations, 0.32%
Strategic Management Journal
1604 citations, 0.31%
Research in the Sociology of Organizations
1561 citations, 0.31%
Academy of Management Review
1388 citations, 0.27%
Journal of Marriage and Family
1368 citations, 0.27%
Sociological Perspectives
1348 citations, 0.26%
Sustainability
1322 citations, 0.26%
PLoS ONE
1307 citations, 0.26%
Sociological Forum
1200 citations, 0.24%
Poetics
1196 citations, 0.23%
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
1124 citations, 0.22%
Sociology Compass
1115 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Family Issues
1108 citations, 0.22%
Sociological Methods and Research
1099 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Business Research
1086 citations, 0.21%
Sociological Theory
1063 citations, 0.21%
Sociological Inquiry
1001 citations, 0.2%
Work and Occupations
982 citations, 0.19%
Justice Quarterly
957 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Management
932 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Business Ethics
932 citations, 0.18%
Research Policy
923 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Management Studies
910 citations, 0.18%
European Sociological Review
907 citations, 0.18%
Urban Studies
891 citations, 0.17%
American Behavioral Scientist
880 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Criminal Justice
880 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
864 citations, 0.17%
International Migration Review
861 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
854 citations, 0.17%
Social Problems
849 citations, 0.17%
Crime and Delinquency
830 citations, 0.16%
Symbolic Interaction
823 citations, 0.16%
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
820 citations, 0.16%
Human Relations
809 citations, 0.16%
Theory and Society
790 citations, 0.15%
Sociological Focus
789 citations, 0.15%
The American Sociologist
745 citations, 0.15%
Social Indicators Research
727 citations, 0.14%
Ethnic and Racial Studies
709 citations, 0.14%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
694 citations, 0.14%
Academy of Management Annals
666 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
621 citations, 0.12%
City and Community
620 citations, 0.12%
Deviant Behavior
614 citations, 0.12%
Socio-Economic Review
608 citations, 0.12%
Sex Roles
594 citations, 0.12%
Management Science
588 citations, 0.12%
Social Psychology Quarterly
554 citations, 0.11%
Frontiers in Psychology
542 citations, 0.11%
Industrial Marketing Management
542 citations, 0.11%
Gender and Society
540 citations, 0.11%
Sociology
524 citations, 0.1%
Social Movement Studies
520 citations, 0.1%
Qualitative Sociology
504 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
493 citations, 0.1%
Law and Society Review
491 citations, 0.1%
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
465 citations, 0.09%
British Journal of Sociology
448 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%
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
429 citations, 0.08%
Rationality and Society
427 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%
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
405 citations, 0.08%
Review of Educational Research
404 citations, 0.08%
International Sociology
387 citations, 0.08%
Advances in Group Processes
384 citations, 0.08%
Scientific Reports
383 citations, 0.08%
Sociology of Education
381 citations, 0.07%
Advances in Life Course Research
380 citations, 0.07%
Regional Studies
375 citations, 0.07%
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
374 citations, 0.07%
Accounting, Organizations and Society
372 citations, 0.07%
Rural Sociology
365 citations, 0.07%
Psychological Bulletin
361 citations, 0.07%
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SAGE
78553 citations, 15.39%
Taylor & Francis
59934 citations, 11.74%
Elsevier
56743 citations, 11.12%
Wiley
55896 citations, 10.95%
Springer Nature
55284 citations, 10.83%
Cambridge University Press
31495 citations, 6.17%
Emerald
21766 citations, 4.26%
Oxford University Press
14216 citations, 2.79%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
11860 citations, 2.32%
University of Chicago Press
7445 citations, 1.46%
Academy of Management
5891 citations, 1.15%
MDPI
5631 citations, 1.1%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
5116 citations, 1%
Annual Reviews
4352 citations, 0.85%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
4197 citations, 0.82%
CAIRN
3539 citations, 0.69%
American Psychological Association (APA)
3449 citations, 0.68%
IGI Global
2818 citations, 0.55%
Frontiers Media S.A.
2223 citations, 0.44%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1963 citations, 0.38%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1881 citations, 0.37%
Walter de Gruyter
1744 citations, 0.34%
OpenEdition
1644 citations, 0.32%
SciELO
1161 citations, 0.23%
Consortium Erudit
952 citations, 0.19%
American Educational Research Association
936 citations, 0.18%
Duke University Press
845 citations, 0.17%
World Scientific
778 citations, 0.15%
University of California Press
580 citations, 0.11%
Cornell University Press
569 citations, 0.11%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
517 citations, 0.1%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
509 citations, 0.1%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
497 citations, 0.1%
American Physical Society (APS)
496 citations, 0.1%
Society for Sociological Science
467 citations, 0.09%
Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
435 citations, 0.09%
American Economic Association
424 citations, 0.08%
American Public Health Association
336 citations, 0.07%
Hindawi Limited
322 citations, 0.06%
IOP Publishing
318 citations, 0.06%
American Marketing Association
304 citations, 0.06%
Brill
302 citations, 0.06%
MIT Press
280 citations, 0.05%
Editions Ophrys
270 citations, 0.05%
Association for the Sociology of Religion
257 citations, 0.05%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
255 citations, 0.05%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
254 citations, 0.05%
BMJ
245 citations, 0.05%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
236 citations, 0.05%
The Royal Society
221 citations, 0.04%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
221 citations, 0.04%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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
159 citations, 0.03%
Human Kinetics
138 citations, 0.03%
Scientific Research Publishing
136 citations, 0.03%
Virtus Interpress
135 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
105 citations, 0.02%
Royal College of Psychiatrists
103 citations, 0.02%
Mary Ann Liebert
99 citations, 0.02%
Guilford Publications
94 citations, 0.02%
Akademiai Kiado
91 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%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
59 citations, 0.01%
Equinox Publishing
57 citations, 0.01%
IMR Press
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%
F1000 Research
52 citations, 0.01%
IOS Press
48 citations, 0.01%
Society for Personality Research
48 citations, 0.01%
Carnegie Mellon University
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, 1.5%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6 publications, 0.64%
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, 0.32%
Boston University
3 publications, 0.32%
Northwestern University
3 publications, 0.32%
University of California, Berkeley
3 publications, 0.32%
New York University
3 publications, 0.32%
University of California, Los Angeles
3 publications, 0.32%
University of California, Irvine
3 publications, 0.32%
University of Chicago
3 publications, 0.32%
University of Texas at Austin
3 publications, 0.32%
University of Notre Dame
3 publications, 0.32%
Indiana University Bloomington
3 publications, 0.32%
Copenhagen Business School
2 publications, 0.21%
University of Southern California
2 publications, 0.21%
Johns Hopkins University
2 publications, 0.21%
Stanford University
2 publications, 0.21%
Columbia University
2 publications, 0.21%
George Washington University
2 publications, 0.21%
University of Washington
2 publications, 0.21%
University of California, San Francisco
2 publications, 0.21%
University of California, Santa Barbara
2 publications, 0.21%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2 publications, 0.21%
Emory University
2 publications, 0.21%
University of Pennsylvania
2 publications, 0.21%
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, 1.07%
USA
10 publications, 1.07%
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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