Society (journal)

Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in the social sciences and public policy. It was established in 1963 as Transaction: Social Science and Modern SOCIETY by Irving Louis Horowitz. It was published by Transaction Publishers before being purchased by Springer Science+Business Media in 2003. The editor-in-chief is Daniel Gordon (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Society

Discipline	Sociology, political science
Language	English
Edited by	Daniel Gordon
Publication details
Former name(s)	Transaction: Social Science and Modern SOCIETY
History	1963–present
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Frequency	Bimonthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	1.4 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Society
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0147-2011 (print) 1936-4725 (web)
LCCN	72625393
OCLC no.	476228864
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

Article types

The journal publishes research articles, commentaries, forums, and book reviews.^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 1.4.^[2]