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American Journal of Sociology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI. Published by The University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0002-9602Verify ISSN ↗1537-5390Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 116 / 1530 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present (also 1946–1950), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
American Journal of Sociology is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 116 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Sociology is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.193, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 225.
American Journal of Sociology is published by The University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0002-9602 and its online ISSN is 1537-5390.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Sociology has an h-index of 390 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #555 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
American Journal of Sociology published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 252. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 58 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (75%), United Kingdom (10.3%) and Canada (4.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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