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Annual Review of Sociology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.1), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Annual Reviews.
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ISSN 0360-0572Verify ISSN ↗1545-2115Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 17 / 1530 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present (also 1980–1981, 1977, 1975), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.1.
Annual Review of Sociology is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 17 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Annual Review 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 13.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.444, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 230.
Annual Review of Sociology is published by Annual Reviews. Its print ISSN is 0360-0572 and its online ISSN is 1545-2115.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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.
Annual Review of Sociology has an h-index of 314 and a 2-year mean of 8.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Annual Review of Sociology published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 39. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (82.2%), United Kingdom (4%) and Canada (2%). 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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