Social Networks (journal)

"Social Networks" redirects here. For the concept, see Social network.

Not to be confused with Social Networking (journal), published by Scientific Research Publishing.

Social Networks is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on social network theory. The editors-in-chief are Thomas Valente (University of Southern California) and Ulrik Brandes (ETH Zurich). It was established in 1979 and is currently published by Elsevier.

Social Networks

Discipline	Sociology, Social network theory
Language	English
Edited by	Ulrik Brandes, Tom Valente
Publication details
History	1979–present
Publisher	Elsevier for the International Network for Social Network Analysis
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	3.1 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Soc. Netw.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0378-8733
LCCN	82643204
OCLC no.	473324852
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Abstracting and indexing

Social Networks is abstracted and indexed in:

• Anthropological Index
• Anthropological Literature
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Sociological Abstracts

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2011 impact factor was 2.931, ranking it 6th out of 137 journals in the category "Sociology".^[1]