Discipline | Sociology |
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Language | English |
Edited by | John Levi Martin |
Publication details | |
History | 1895–present |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press for The Department of Sociology at The University of Chicago (United States) |
Frequency | Bimonthly |
3.232 (2019) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Am. J. Sociol. |
Indexing | |
CODEN | AJSOAR |
ISSN | 0002-9602 (print) 1537-5390 (web) |
LCCN | 05031884 |
JSTOR | 00029602 |
OCLC no. | 42017129 |
Links | |
The American Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of sociology and related social sciences. It was founded in 1895[1] as the first journal in its discipline. It is along with American Sociological Review considered one of the top journals in sociology.[2]
The current editor is John Levi Martin.[3] For its entire history, the journal has been housed at the University of Chicago[4] and published by the University of Chicago Press.