The Sociological Review

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The Sociological Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology, including anthropology, criminology, philosophy, education, gender, medicine, and organization. The journal is published by SAGE Publishing; before 2017 it was published by Wiley-Blackwell. It is one of the three "main sociology journals in Britain", along with the British Journal of Sociology and Sociology, and the oldest British sociology journal.^[1]

The Sociological Review

Discipline	Sociology
Language	English
Publication details
History	1908–present
Publisher	SAGE Publishing in association with The Sociological Review Publication
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Yes
License	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Impact factor	2.1 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Sociol. Rev.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0038-0261 (print) 1467-954X (web)
LCCN	09007601
OCLC no.	505014828
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The journal also publishes a monograph series that presents scholarly articles on issues of general sociological interest, and a themed monthly magazine that "present[s] timely insights grounded in sociological thinking and [...] writing for a broad readership".^[2]

History

Established in 1908^[3] as a successor of the Papers of the Sociological Society, its founder and first editor-in-chief was Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse.^[4]

Editors

The journal's founder and first editor, Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

The following persons have been editors-in-chief of this journal:

• Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse 1908–1910
• Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe 1910–1917
• Victor Branford 1917–?
• Alexander Carr-Saunders, Alexander Farquharson, and Morris Ginsberg 1934–?

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 2.1.^[5]