Sociological Theory

SAGE
SAGE
ISSN: 07352751, 14679558
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
4.1
SJR
2.068
CiteScore
6.9
Categories
Sociology and Political Science
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1996-2024
Publications
894
Citations
47 139
h-index
98
Publications
101
Citations
21 116
Top-3 citing journals
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory (785 citations)
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (558 citations)
Theory and Society
Theory and Society (402 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Chicago
University of Chicago (18 publications)
University of Michigan
University of Michigan (18 publications)
Stanford University
Stanford University (17 publications)
Brown University
Brown University (4 publications)
University of Chicago
University of Chicago (4 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (396 publications)
United Kingdom (24 publications)
Canada (20 publications)
USA (58 publications)
Canada (6 publications)
Germany (5 publications)

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Citing journals

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Sociological Theory
785 citations, 1.67%
SSRN Electronic Journal
558 citations, 1.18%
Theory and Society
402 citations, 0.85%
American Journal of Sociology
361 citations, 0.77%
American Sociological Review
322 citations, 0.68%
Sociological Forum
291 citations, 0.62%
Poetics
270 citations, 0.57%
Sociology Compass
241 citations, 0.51%
Sociological Quarterly
239 citations, 0.51%
American Journal of Cultural Sociology
234 citations, 0.5%
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
217 citations, 0.46%
Symbolic Interaction
202 citations, 0.43%
Annual Review of Sociology
198 citations, 0.42%
Qualitative Sociology
196 citations, 0.42%
The American Sociologist
192 citations, 0.41%
Organization Studies
185 citations, 0.39%
Social Science and Medicine
181 citations, 0.38%
Research in the Sociology of Organizations
178 citations, 0.38%
Sociological Perspectives
166 citations, 0.35%
Cultural Sociology
163 citations, 0.35%
Journal of Classical Sociology
159 citations, 0.34%
Social Problems
149 citations, 0.32%
Sociological Review
141 citations, 0.3%
Sociology
140 citations, 0.3%
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
139 citations, 0.29%
British Journal of Sociology
137 citations, 0.29%
European Journal of Social Theory
130 citations, 0.28%
Critical Sociology
123 citations, 0.26%
Gender and Society
122 citations, 0.26%
Sustainability
121 citations, 0.26%
Current Sociology
118 citations, 0.25%
Social Forces
114 citations, 0.24%
Social Psychology Quarterly
111 citations, 0.24%
Ethnic and Racial Studies
108 citations, 0.23%
Organization Science
106 citations, 0.22%
Social Science Research
104 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
96 citations, 0.2%
Academy of Management Review
92 citations, 0.2%
Sociological Inquiry
88 citations, 0.19%
Social Networks
86 citations, 0.18%
Social Movement Studies
84 citations, 0.18%
British Journal of Sociology of Education
83 citations, 0.18%
American Behavioral Scientist
82 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
78 citations, 0.17%
Sociological Research Online
76 citations, 0.16%
Socio-Economic Review
76 citations, 0.16%
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
75 citations, 0.16%
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
75 citations, 0.16%
Sociological Methods and Research
71 citations, 0.15%
Sexualities
67 citations, 0.14%
Rationality and Society
67 citations, 0.14%
Memory Studies
64 citations, 0.14%
International Sociology
63 citations, 0.13%
Human Studies
61 citations, 0.13%
Theory, Culture and Society
61 citations, 0.13%
Distinktion
60 citations, 0.13%
PLoS ONE
60 citations, 0.13%
Accounting, Organizations and Society
59 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Business Ethics
59 citations, 0.13%
Frontiers in Psychology
57 citations, 0.12%
Religions
57 citations, 0.12%
Sociology of Health and Illness
57 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Sociology
56 citations, 0.12%
Administrative Science Quarterly
55 citations, 0.12%
Academy of Management Journal
55 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Business Research
54 citations, 0.11%
Advances in Group Processes
54 citations, 0.11%
Sociology of Religion
54 citations, 0.11%
Thesis Eleven
52 citations, 0.11%
Sociological Focus
51 citations, 0.11%
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
51 citations, 0.11%
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
51 citations, 0.11%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
48 citations, 0.1%
Social Currents
48 citations, 0.1%
New Media and Society
48 citations, 0.1%
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
47 citations, 0.1%
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
46 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Critical Realism
46 citations, 0.1%
Acta Sociologica
45 citations, 0.1%
International Review of Sociology
44 citations, 0.09%
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
43 citations, 0.09%
Academy of Management Annals
43 citations, 0.09%
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
42 citations, 0.09%
Social Science History
42 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Management Studies
41 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Homosexuality
40 citations, 0.08%
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
40 citations, 0.08%
Social Science Information
40 citations, 0.08%
International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
40 citations, 0.08%
Voluntas
40 citations, 0.08%
Political Power and Social Theory
40 citations, 0.08%
History of the Human Sciences
39 citations, 0.08%
Sociological Spectrum
39 citations, 0.08%
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
38 citations, 0.08%
Work, Employment and Society
38 citations, 0.08%
Ethnography
38 citations, 0.08%
Human Relations
37 citations, 0.08%
Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
36 citations, 0.08%
City and Community
36 citations, 0.08%
Geoforum
35 citations, 0.07%
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Citing publishers

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SAGE
8550 citations, 18.14%
Taylor & Francis
6415 citations, 13.61%
Springer Nature
5031 citations, 10.67%
Wiley
4671 citations, 9.91%
Elsevier
3351 citations, 7.11%
Cambridge University Press
2572 citations, 5.46%
Emerald
2023 citations, 4.29%
Oxford University Press
1276 citations, 2.71%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
559 citations, 1.19%
University of Chicago Press
552 citations, 1.17%
MDPI
524 citations, 1.11%
Annual Reviews
334 citations, 0.71%
Frontiers Media S.A.
302 citations, 0.64%
IGI Global
294 citations, 0.62%
Academy of Management
279 citations, 0.59%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
236 citations, 0.5%
Walter de Gruyter
223 citations, 0.47%
CAIRN
217 citations, 0.46%
OpenEdition
180 citations, 0.38%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
162 citations, 0.34%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
156 citations, 0.33%
Consortium Erudit
98 citations, 0.21%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
96 citations, 0.2%
Duke University Press
84 citations, 0.18%
SciELO
84 citations, 0.18%
Brill
80 citations, 0.17%
Association for the Sociology of Religion
79 citations, 0.17%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
72 citations, 0.15%
Cornell University Press
70 citations, 0.15%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
68 citations, 0.14%
Bristol University Press
57 citations, 0.12%
47 citations, 0.1%
University of California Press
44 citations, 0.09%
Society for Sociological Science
35 citations, 0.07%
Intellect
34 citations, 0.07%
World Scientific
31 citations, 0.07%
American Educational Research Association
30 citations, 0.06%
Human Kinetics
27 citations, 0.06%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
26 citations, 0.06%
Berghahn Books
25 citations, 0.05%
Editions Ophrys
24 citations, 0.05%
BMJ
24 citations, 0.05%
MIT Press
21 citations, 0.04%
The Royal Society
20 citations, 0.04%
JMIR Publications
20 citations, 0.04%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
19 citations, 0.04%
Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)
19 citations, 0.04%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
17 citations, 0.04%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
16 citations, 0.03%
American Psychological Association (APA)
15 citations, 0.03%
14 citations, 0.03%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
13 citations, 0.03%
IOP Publishing
13 citations, 0.03%
Editora Universidade de Brasilia
13 citations, 0.03%
Centro de estudos sociais
13 citations, 0.03%
AOSIS
13 citations, 0.03%
American Marketing Association
12 citations, 0.03%
Mary Ann Liebert
12 citations, 0.03%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
12 citations, 0.03%
Cogitatio
12 citations, 0.03%
11 citations, 0.02%
American Economic Association
11 citations, 0.02%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
11 citations, 0.02%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
11 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
11 citations, 0.02%
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
10 citations, 0.02%
10 citations, 0.02%
Scientific Research Publishing
10 citations, 0.02%
Charles University
9 citations, 0.02%
Cognizant, LLC
9 citations, 0.02%
IntechOpen
9 citations, 0.02%
Guilford Publications
9 citations, 0.02%
Masaryk University Press
8 citations, 0.02%
Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro
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%
7 citations, 0.01%
Linkoping University Electronic Press
7 citations, 0.01%
Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales, UNAM
7 citations, 0.01%
Hindawi Limited
7 citations, 0.01%
Engineering Project Organization Society
7 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%
University of Illinois Press
6 citations, 0.01%
Maisonneuve et Larose
6 citations, 0.01%
6 citations, 0.01%
Copernicus
6 citations, 0.01%
Stockholm University Press
6 citations, 0.01%
6 citations, 0.01%
DMSP Research Center, Paris-Dauphine University
6 citations, 0.01%
F1000 Research
6 citations, 0.01%
Equinox Publishing
6 citations, 0.01%
IOS Press
5 citations, 0.01%
Edinburgh University Press
5 citations, 0.01%
EDP Sciences
5 citations, 0.01%
Liverpool University Press
5 citations, 0.01%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
5 citations, 0.01%
5 citations, 0.01%
Carnegie Mellon University
5 citations, 0.01%
University of Calgary Press
5 citations, 0.01%
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University of Chicago
18 publications, 2.01%
University of Michigan
18 publications, 2.01%
Stanford University
17 publications, 1.9%
Columbia University
17 publications, 1.9%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
17 publications, 1.9%
University of California, Los Angeles
16 publications, 1.79%
Northwestern University
15 publications, 1.68%
New York University
13 publications, 1.45%
Yale University
11 publications, 1.23%
University of California, Berkeley
10 publications, 1.12%
University of Pennsylvania
10 publications, 1.12%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10 publications, 1.12%
University of Toronto
9 publications, 1.01%
University of Notre Dame
8 publications, 0.89%
University of Arizona
7 publications, 0.78%
Cornell University
6 publications, 0.67%
Princeton University
6 publications, 0.67%
Harvard University
6 publications, 0.67%
University of California, Riverside
6 publications, 0.67%
University of Texas at Austin
6 publications, 0.67%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
6 publications, 0.67%
University of Southern California
5 publications, 0.56%
Boston University
5 publications, 0.56%
University of South Florida
5 publications, 0.56%
Brown University
5 publications, 0.56%
University of Colorado Boulder
5 publications, 0.56%
Indiana University Bloomington
5 publications, 0.56%
London School of Economics and Political Science
4 publications, 0.45%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
4 publications, 0.45%
Duke University
4 publications, 0.45%
University of Washington
4 publications, 0.45%
University of California, Santa Barbara
4 publications, 0.45%
University of Maryland, College Park
4 publications, 0.45%
Tel Aviv University
3 publications, 0.34%
Uppsala University
3 publications, 0.34%
Florida State University
3 publications, 0.34%
George Washington University
3 publications, 0.34%
American University
3 publications, 0.34%
University of Hong Kong
3 publications, 0.34%
Ohio State University
3 publications, 0.34%
University of California, Davis
3 publications, 0.34%
Ohio University
3 publications, 0.34%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 publications, 0.34%
University of British Columbia
3 publications, 0.34%
Purdue University
3 publications, 0.34%
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
3 publications, 0.34%
University of Exeter
3 publications, 0.34%
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 Turku
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Warwick
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Cambridge
2 publications, 0.22%
Aarhus University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Edinburgh
2 publications, 0.22%
William Marsh Rice University
2 publications, 0.22%
Johns Hopkins University
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%
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%
University of Genoa
1 publication, 0.11%
Radboud University Nijmegen
1 publication, 0.11%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1 publication, 0.11%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 0.11%
Free University of Berlin
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Helsinki
1 publication, 0.11%
Sapienza University of Rome
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Bern
1 publication, 0.11%
Western Sydney University
1 publication, 0.11%
University College London
1 publication, 0.11%
Durham University
1 publication, 0.11%
Brunel University London
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Lucerne
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Liverpool
1 publication, 0.11%
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University of California, Los Angeles
5 publications, 4.95%
University of Chicago
4 publications, 3.96%
Brown University
4 publications, 3.96%
Princeton University
3 publications, 2.97%
New York University
3 publications, 2.97%
University of Michigan
3 publications, 2.97%
University of British Columbia
3 publications, 2.97%
University of Toronto
3 publications, 2.97%
Bar-Ilan University
2 publications, 1.98%
ETH Zurich
2 publications, 1.98%
University of Cambridge
2 publications, 1.98%
Aarhus University
2 publications, 1.98%
University of Southern California
2 publications, 1.98%
Stanford University
2 publications, 1.98%
Boston University
2 publications, 1.98%
University of Hong Kong
2 publications, 1.98%
University of South Florida
2 publications, 1.98%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2 publications, 1.98%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1 publication, 0.99%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1 publication, 0.99%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 0.99%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 0.99%
University of Oslo
1 publication, 0.99%
London School of Economics and Political Science
1 publication, 0.99%
Florida State University
1 publication, 0.99%
William Marsh Rice University
1 publication, 0.99%
Johns Hopkins University
1 publication, 0.99%
Pennsylvania State University
1 publication, 0.99%
Columbia University
1 publication, 0.99%
Northwestern University
1 publication, 0.99%
University of Illinois at Chicago
1 publication, 0.99%
Syracuse University
1 publication, 0.99%
University of California, Berkeley
1 publication, 0.99%
Harvard University
1 publication, 0.99%
Ohio State University
1 publication, 0.99%
Tufts University
1 publication, 0.99%
University of California, San Diego
1 publication, 0.99%
Loyola University Chicago
1 publication, 0.99%
University of Notre Dame
1 publication, 0.99%
Ohio University
1 publication, 0.99%
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1 publication, 0.99%
Chemnitz University of Technology
1 publication, 0.99%
Marquette University
1 publication, 0.99%
University of Minnesota
1 publication, 0.99%
Leiden University
1 publication, 0.99%
Constructor University
1 publication, 0.99%
Purdue University
1 publication, 0.99%
Frostburg State University
1 publication, 0.99%
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
1 publication, 0.99%
University of Leeds
1 publication, 0.99%
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1 publication, 0.99%
University of Colorado Boulder
1 publication, 0.99%
Indiana University Bloomington
1 publication, 0.99%
Utah State University
1 publication, 0.99%
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USA, 396, 44.3%
USA
396 publications, 44.3%
United Kingdom, 24, 2.68%
United Kingdom
24 publications, 2.68%
Canada, 20, 2.24%
Canada
20 publications, 2.24%
Germany, 14, 1.57%
Germany
14 publications, 1.57%
China, 9, 1.01%
China
9 publications, 1.01%
Israel, 7, 0.78%
Israel
7 publications, 0.78%
Australia, 6, 0.67%
Australia
6 publications, 0.67%
Sweden, 5, 0.56%
Sweden
5 publications, 0.56%
Denmark, 4, 0.45%
Denmark
4 publications, 0.45%
Finland, 4, 0.45%
Finland
4 publications, 0.45%
Switzerland, 4, 0.45%
Switzerland
4 publications, 0.45%
Spain, 3, 0.34%
Spain
3 publications, 0.34%
Netherlands, 3, 0.34%
Netherlands
3 publications, 0.34%
Republic of Korea, 3, 0.34%
Republic of Korea
3 publications, 0.34%
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%
Italy, 2, 0.22%
Italy
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%
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, 58, 57.43%
USA
58 publications, 57.43%
Canada, 6, 5.94%
Canada
6 publications, 5.94%
Germany, 5, 4.95%
Germany
5 publications, 4.95%
United Kingdom, 4, 3.96%
United Kingdom
4 publications, 3.96%
Israel, 3, 2.97%
Israel
3 publications, 2.97%
China, 2, 1.98%
China
2 publications, 1.98%
Denmark, 2, 1.98%
Denmark
2 publications, 1.98%
Switzerland, 2, 1.98%
Switzerland
2 publications, 1.98%
France, 1, 0.99%
France
1 publication, 0.99%
Belgium, 1, 0.99%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.99%
Malta, 1, 0.99%
Malta
1 publication, 0.99%
Netherlands, 1, 0.99%
Netherlands
1 publication, 0.99%
Norway, 1, 0.99%
Norway
1 publication, 0.99%
Slovakia, 1, 0.99%
Slovakia
1 publication, 0.99%
Chile, 1, 0.99%
Chile
1 publication, 0.99%
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