Sociological Theory

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SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
5.0
SJR
2.527
CiteScore
6.8
Categories
Sociology and Political Science
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1996-2025
journal names
Sociological Theory
SOCIOL THEOR
Publications
925
Citations
51 456
h-index
102
Publications
105
Citations
21 835
Top-3 citing journals
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory (854 citations)
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (559 citations)
Theory and Society
Theory and Society (445 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Chicago
University of Chicago (22 publications)
University of Michigan
University of Michigan (18 publications)
University of Chicago
University of Chicago (5 publications)
Aarhus University
Aarhus University (3 publications)
Princeton University
Princeton University (3 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (406 publications)
United Kingdom (26 publications)
Canada (21 publications)
USA (50 publications)
Canada (5 publications)
United Kingdom (5 publications)
Top-1 researchers by articles count

Most cited in 5 years

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Top-100

Citing journals

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Sociological Theory
854 citations, 1.66%
SSRN Electronic Journal
559 citations, 1.09%
Theory and Society
445 citations, 0.86%
American Journal of Sociology
363 citations, 0.71%
American Sociological Review
362 citations, 0.7%
Sociological Forum
323 citations, 0.63%
Poetics
297 citations, 0.58%
American Journal of Cultural Sociology
286 citations, 0.56%
Sociology Compass
255 citations, 0.5%
Sociological Quarterly
249 citations, 0.48%
The American Sociologist
233 citations, 0.45%
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
223 citations, 0.43%
Symbolic Interaction
222 citations, 0.43%
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
222 citations, 0.43%
Qualitative Sociology
212 citations, 0.41%
Annual Review of Sociology
208 citations, 0.4%
Social Science and Medicine
200 citations, 0.39%
Organization Studies
194 citations, 0.38%
Cultural Sociology
180 citations, 0.35%
Research in the Sociology of Organizations
178 citations, 0.35%
Social Problems
168 citations, 0.33%
Journal of Classical Sociology
163 citations, 0.32%
British Journal of Sociology
163 citations, 0.32%
Sociological Perspectives
157 citations, 0.31%
Sociological Review
154 citations, 0.3%
Sociology
150 citations, 0.29%
Critical Sociology
141 citations, 0.27%
European Journal of Social Theory
139 citations, 0.27%
Social Forces
138 citations, 0.27%
Sustainability
137 citations, 0.27%
Ethnic and Racial Studies
134 citations, 0.26%
Current Sociology
124 citations, 0.24%
Gender and Society
121 citations, 0.24%
Social Psychology Quarterly
113 citations, 0.22%
Organization Science
107 citations, 0.21%
Social Science Research
107 citations, 0.21%
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
105 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
97 citations, 0.19%
Academy of Management Review
95 citations, 0.18%
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
94 citations, 0.18%
Sociological Inquiry
91 citations, 0.18%
Social Networks
91 citations, 0.18%
Social Movement Studies
85 citations, 0.17%
Socio-Economic Review
84 citations, 0.16%
British Journal of Sociology of Education
84 citations, 0.16%
American Behavioral Scientist
80 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
80 citations, 0.16%
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
76 citations, 0.15%
Sociological Research Online
75 citations, 0.15%
Sociological Methods and Research
75 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Business Ethics
73 citations, 0.14%
Sexualities
69 citations, 0.13%
Memory Studies
69 citations, 0.13%
Rationality and Society
67 citations, 0.13%
PLoS ONE
67 citations, 0.13%
Frontiers in Sociology
67 citations, 0.13%
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
67 citations, 0.13%
Distinktion
63 citations, 0.12%
Theory, Culture and Society
62 citations, 0.12%
Human Studies
61 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Psychology
60 citations, 0.12%
New Media and Society
60 citations, 0.12%
International Sociology
60 citations, 0.12%
Sociology of Health and Illness
60 citations, 0.12%
Thesis Eleven
59 citations, 0.11%
Religions
59 citations, 0.11%
Administrative Science Quarterly
58 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Business Research
57 citations, 0.11%
Sociological Focus
56 citations, 0.11%
Accounting, Organizations and Society
56 citations, 0.11%
Sociology of Religion
56 citations, 0.11%
Advances in Group Processes
54 citations, 0.1%
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
54 citations, 0.1%
Academy of Management Journal
53 citations, 0.1%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
49 citations, 0.1%
Social Currents
49 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Management Studies
49 citations, 0.1%
International Review of Sociology
48 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Critical Realism
47 citations, 0.09%
Academy of Management Annals
47 citations, 0.09%
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
46 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Homosexuality
46 citations, 0.09%
Acta Sociologica
46 citations, 0.09%
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
45 citations, 0.09%
International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
45 citations, 0.09%
Social Science History
45 citations, 0.09%
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
41 citations, 0.08%
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
40 citations, 0.08%
History of the Human Sciences
40 citations, 0.08%
European Journal of International Relations
40 citations, 0.08%
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
40 citations, 0.08%
Energy Research and Social Science
40 citations, 0.08%
Political Power and Social Theory
39 citations, 0.08%
Zeitschrift fur Soziologie
38 citations, 0.07%
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
38 citations, 0.07%
Work, Employment and Society
38 citations, 0.07%
Social Science Information
38 citations, 0.07%
Sociological Spectrum
38 citations, 0.07%
Voluntas
38 citations, 0.07%
Ethnography
38 citations, 0.07%
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Citing publishers

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SAGE
9529 citations, 18.52%
Taylor & Francis
7059 citations, 13.72%
Springer Nature
6244 citations, 12.13%
Wiley
5087 citations, 9.89%
Elsevier
3768 citations, 7.32%
Cambridge University Press
3318 citations, 6.45%
Emerald
2194 citations, 4.26%
Oxford University Press
1638 citations, 3.18%
MDPI
629 citations, 1.22%
University of Chicago Press
579 citations, 1.13%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
556 citations, 1.08%
Frontiers Media S.A.
351 citations, 0.68%
Annual Reviews
350 citations, 0.68%
IGI Global
325 citations, 0.63%
Academy of Management
295 citations, 0.57%
Walter de Gruyter
281 citations, 0.55%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
260 citations, 0.51%
CAIRN
255 citations, 0.5%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
195 citations, 0.38%
OpenEdition
190 citations, 0.37%
Duke University Press
186 citations, 0.36%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
161 citations, 0.31%
SciELO
132 citations, 0.26%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
106 citations, 0.21%
Consortium Erudit
99 citations, 0.19%
Brill
89 citations, 0.17%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
83 citations, 0.16%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
83 citations, 0.16%
Association for the Sociology of Religion
81 citations, 0.16%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
75 citations, 0.15%
American Psychological Association (APA)
73 citations, 0.14%
Bristol University Press
65 citations, 0.13%
University of California Press
60 citations, 0.12%
American Educational Research Association
46 citations, 0.09%
Intellect
39 citations, 0.08%
Society for Sociological Science
35 citations, 0.07%
World Scientific
34 citations, 0.07%
Human Kinetics
34 citations, 0.07%
MIT Press
27 citations, 0.05%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
26 citations, 0.05%
Editions Ophrys
24 citations, 0.05%
JMIR Publications
24 citations, 0.05%
Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)
24 citations, 0.05%
Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
24 citations, 0.05%
BMJ
23 citations, 0.04%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
22 citations, 0.04%
Berghahn Books
22 citations, 0.04%
The Royal Society
21 citations, 0.04%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
21 citations, 0.04%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
18 citations, 0.03%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
17 citations, 0.03%
Cornell University Press
15 citations, 0.03%
Mary Ann Liebert
14 citations, 0.03%
IOP Publishing
14 citations, 0.03%
AOSIS
14 citations, 0.03%
Cogitatio
14 citations, 0.03%
Centro de estudos sociais
13 citations, 0.03%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
12 citations, 0.02%
IntechOpen
12 citations, 0.02%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
12 citations, 0.02%
Editora Universidade de Brasilia
11 citations, 0.02%
Scientific Research Publishing
11 citations, 0.02%
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
10 citations, 0.02%
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
10 citations, 0.02%
Project MUSE
10 citations, 0.02%
American Marketing Association
9 citations, 0.02%
Charles University
9 citations, 0.02%
Masaryk University Press
9 citations, 0.02%
Cognizant, LLC
9 citations, 0.02%
Guilford Publications
9 citations, 0.02%
Duncker & Humblot GmbH
9 citations, 0.02%
Linkoping University Electronic Press
8 citations, 0.02%
Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro
8 citations, 0.02%
Hindawi Limited
8 citations, 0.02%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
8 citations, 0.02%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
8 citations, 0.02%
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
8 citations, 0.02%
University of Illinois Press
7 citations, 0.01%
American Economic Association
7 citations, 0.01%
Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales, UNAM
7 citations, 0.01%
Jugoslovensko udruzenje za sociologiju
7 citations, 0.01%
F1000 Research
7 citations, 0.01%
Engineering Project Organization Society
7 citations, 0.01%
Equinox Publishing
7 citations, 0.01%
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
7 citations, 0.01%
EDP Sciences
6 citations, 0.01%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
6 citations, 0.01%
Springer Publishing Company
6 citations, 0.01%
Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
6 citations, 0.01%
Copernicus
6 citations, 0.01%
Fundacio per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
6 citations, 0.01%
Stockholm University Press
6 citations, 0.01%
IOS Press
5 citations, 0.01%
Edinburgh University Press
5 citations, 0.01%
Liverpool University Press
5 citations, 0.01%
Maisonneuve et Larose
5 citations, 0.01%
Carnegie Mellon University
5 citations, 0.01%
University of Calgary Press
5 citations, 0.01%
Unisa Press
5 citations, 0.01%
Federal University of Bahia Human Resources Center
5 citations, 0.01%
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University of Chicago
22 publications, 2.38%
University of Michigan
18 publications, 1.95%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
18 publications, 1.95%
Stanford University
17 publications, 1.84%
Columbia University
17 publications, 1.84%
Northwestern University
17 publications, 1.84%
University of California, Los Angeles
16 publications, 1.73%
University of Virginia
16 publications, 1.73%
New York University
15 publications, 1.62%
Yale University
11 publications, 1.19%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11 publications, 1.19%
University of California, Berkeley
10 publications, 1.08%
University of Pennsylvania
10 publications, 1.08%
University of Toronto
9 publications, 0.97%
University of Notre Dame
8 publications, 0.86%
University of Arizona
7 publications, 0.76%
University of Oregon
7 publications, 0.76%
University of South Carolina
7 publications, 0.76%
Cornell University
6 publications, 0.65%
Princeton University
6 publications, 0.65%
Harvard University
6 publications, 0.65%
University of California, Riverside
6 publications, 0.65%
University of Texas at Austin
6 publications, 0.65%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
6 publications, 0.65%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
6 publications, 0.65%
University of Southern California
5 publications, 0.54%
Boston University
5 publications, 0.54%
University of South Florida
5 publications, 0.54%
Brown University
5 publications, 0.54%
University of Colorado Boulder
5 publications, 0.54%
Indiana University Bloomington
5 publications, 0.54%
University of Iowa
5 publications, 0.54%
London School of Economics and Political Science
4 publications, 0.43%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
4 publications, 0.43%
Duke University
4 publications, 0.43%
University of Washington
4 publications, 0.43%
University of California, Santa Barbara
4 publications, 0.43%
University of British Columbia
4 publications, 0.43%
Purdue University
4 publications, 0.43%
University of Maryland, College Park
4 publications, 0.43%
Tel Aviv University
3 publications, 0.32%
Uppsala University
3 publications, 0.32%
Aarhus University
3 publications, 0.32%
Florida State University
3 publications, 0.32%
George Washington University
3 publications, 0.32%
American University
3 publications, 0.32%
University of Hong Kong
3 publications, 0.32%
Ohio State University
3 publications, 0.32%
University of California, Davis
3 publications, 0.32%
Ohio University
3 publications, 0.32%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 publications, 0.32%
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
3 publications, 0.32%
University of Exeter
3 publications, 0.32%
University of Tulsa
3 publications, 0.32%
University at Albany, State University of New York
3 publications, 0.32%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2 publications, 0.22%
Bar-Ilan University
2 publications, 0.22%
Heidelberg University
2 publications, 0.22%
Stockholm University
2 publications, 0.22%
ETH Zurich
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Lausanne
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Turku
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Cambridge
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Edinburgh
2 publications, 0.22%
William Marsh Rice University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Birmingham
2 publications, 0.22%
Johns Hopkins University
2 publications, 0.22%
Georgia Institute of technology
2 publications, 0.22%
Pennsylvania State University
2 publications, 0.22%
Flinders University
2 publications, 0.22%
Washington State University
2 publications, 0.22%
Arizona State University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Illinois at Chicago
2 publications, 0.22%
Tufts University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of California, San Diego
2 publications, 0.22%
University of California, Irvine
2 publications, 0.22%
University of California, Merced
2 publications, 0.22%
Loyola University Chicago
2 publications, 0.22%
Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest)
2 publications, 0.22%
Vanderbilt University
2 publications, 0.22%
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
2 publications, 0.22%
Wayne State University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Minnesota
2 publications, 0.22%
Laurentian University
2 publications, 0.22%
Florida International University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Florida
2 publications, 0.22%
University of South Alabama
2 publications, 0.22%
Wesleyan University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Connecticut
2 publications, 0.22%
School of Oriental and African Studies
2 publications, 0.22%
Mount Saint Vincent University
2 publications, 0.22%
Bowling Green State University
2 publications, 0.22%
James Madison University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Pittsburgh
2 publications, 0.22%
California State University, Los Angeles
2 publications, 0.22%
Bilkent University
1 publication, 0.11%
New York University Abu Dhabi
1 publication, 0.11%
Ege University
1 publication, 0.11%
Peking University
1 publication, 0.11%
Fudan University
1 publication, 0.11%
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University of Chicago
5 publications, 4.76%
Aarhus University
3 publications, 2.86%
Princeton University
3 publications, 2.86%
Northwestern University
3 publications, 2.86%
New York University
3 publications, 2.86%
University of California, Los Angeles
3 publications, 2.86%
University of Michigan
3 publications, 2.86%
University of British Columbia
3 publications, 2.86%
University of Virginia
3 publications, 2.86%
University of Lausanne
2 publications, 1.9%
University of Cambridge
2 publications, 1.9%
Stanford University
2 publications, 1.9%
University of Hong Kong
2 publications, 1.9%
University of South Florida
2 publications, 1.9%
Purdue University
2 publications, 1.9%
Brown University
2 publications, 1.9%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2 publications, 1.9%
University of Toronto
2 publications, 1.9%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1 publication, 0.95%
Bar-Ilan University
1 publication, 0.95%
Lund University
1 publication, 0.95%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1 publication, 0.95%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 0.95%
ETH Zurich
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Milan
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Copenhagen
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Oslo
1 publication, 0.95%
London School of Economics and Political Science
1 publication, 0.95%
Florida State University
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Southern California
1 publication, 0.95%
William Marsh Rice University
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Birmingham
1 publication, 0.95%
Pennsylvania State University
1 publication, 0.95%
Columbia University
1 publication, 0.95%
Boston University
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Illinois at Chicago
1 publication, 0.95%
Syracuse University
1 publication, 0.95%
University of California, Berkeley
1 publication, 0.95%
Harvard University
1 publication, 0.95%
Ohio State University
1 publication, 0.95%
Tufts University
1 publication, 0.95%
Loyola University Chicago
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Notre Dame
1 publication, 0.95%
Chemnitz University of Technology
1 publication, 0.95%
Marquette University
1 publication, 0.95%
Hamburg University
1 publication, 0.95%
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
1 publication, 0.95%
Frostburg State University
1 publication, 0.95%
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Vienna
1 publication, 0.95%
Open University of Catalonia
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Leicester
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Colorado Boulder
1 publication, 0.95%
Indiana University Bloomington
1 publication, 0.95%
Utah State University
1 publication, 0.95%
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
1 publication, 0.95%
Brandeis University
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1 publication, 0.95%
University of North Georgia
1 publication, 0.95%
University of Oklahoma
1 publication, 0.95%
James Madison University
1 publication, 0.95%
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USA, 406, 43.89%
USA
406 publications, 43.89%
United Kingdom, 26, 2.81%
United Kingdom
26 publications, 2.81%
Canada, 21, 2.27%
Canada
21 publications, 2.27%
Germany, 14, 1.51%
Germany
14 publications, 1.51%
China, 9, 0.97%
China
9 publications, 0.97%
Israel, 7, 0.76%
Israel
7 publications, 0.76%
Australia, 6, 0.65%
Australia
6 publications, 0.65%
Denmark, 6, 0.65%
Denmark
6 publications, 0.65%
Switzerland, 6, 0.65%
Switzerland
6 publications, 0.65%
Sweden, 6, 0.65%
Sweden
6 publications, 0.65%
Spain, 4, 0.43%
Spain
4 publications, 0.43%
Italy, 4, 0.43%
Italy
4 publications, 0.43%
Finland, 4, 0.43%
Finland
4 publications, 0.43%
Netherlands, 3, 0.32%
Netherlands
3 publications, 0.32%
Republic of Korea, 3, 0.32%
Republic of Korea
3 publications, 0.32%
France, 2, 0.22%
France
2 publications, 0.22%
Brazil, 2, 0.22%
Brazil
2 publications, 0.22%
Hungary, 2, 0.22%
Hungary
2 publications, 0.22%
Mexico, 2, 0.22%
Mexico
2 publications, 0.22%
Poland, 2, 0.22%
Poland
2 publications, 0.22%
Turkey, 2, 0.22%
Turkey
2 publications, 0.22%
Estonia, 1, 0.11%
Estonia
1 publication, 0.11%
Austria, 1, 0.11%
Austria
1 publication, 0.11%
Belgium, 1, 0.11%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.11%
Ireland, 1, 0.11%
Ireland
1 publication, 0.11%
Malta, 1, 0.11%
Malta
1 publication, 0.11%
New Zealand, 1, 0.11%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.11%
Norway, 1, 0.11%
Norway
1 publication, 0.11%
UAE, 1, 0.11%
UAE
1 publication, 0.11%
Singapore, 1, 0.11%
Singapore
1 publication, 0.11%
Slovakia, 1, 0.11%
Slovakia
1 publication, 0.11%
Montenegro, 1, 0.11%
Montenegro
1 publication, 0.11%
Chile, 1, 0.11%
Chile
1 publication, 0.11%
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Publishing countries in 5 years

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USA
50 publications, 47.62%
United Kingdom, 5, 4.76%
United Kingdom
5 publications, 4.76%
Canada, 5, 4.76%
Canada
5 publications, 4.76%
Germany, 4, 3.81%
Germany
4 publications, 3.81%
Denmark, 4, 3.81%
Denmark
4 publications, 3.81%
Switzerland, 3, 2.86%
Switzerland
3 publications, 2.86%
China, 2, 1.9%
China
2 publications, 1.9%
Israel, 2, 1.9%
Israel
2 publications, 1.9%
Italy, 2, 1.9%
Italy
2 publications, 1.9%
France, 1, 0.95%
France
1 publication, 0.95%
Austria, 1, 0.95%
Austria
1 publication, 0.95%
Spain, 1, 0.95%
Spain
1 publication, 0.95%
Norway, 1, 0.95%
Norway
1 publication, 0.95%
Slovakia, 1, 0.95%
Slovakia
1 publication, 0.95%
Chile, 1, 0.95%
Chile
1 publication, 0.95%
Sweden, 1, 0.95%
Sweden
1 publication, 0.95%
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