Recognized worldwide as a leading Sociology publisher, Wiley is home to a distinguished list of publications spanning the spectrum of the discipline. In partnership with prestigious international societies and the most highly regarded academics, we publish 20 journals ranked in the sociology category by ISI.
| Sociology Journals ISI Ranking
ISI Journal Citation Reports® 2016 | Top Cited Articles Contributing to the 2016 Impact Factor |
| The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
2016: 116/143 (Sociology); 292/347 (Economics)
Impact Factor: 0.446 | The Effect of Urbanization and Industrialization on Energy Use in EmergingEconomies: Implications for Sustainable Development
Perry Sadorsky The Social, Spatial, and Economic Roots of Urban Inequality in Africa: Contextualizing Jane Jacobs and Henry George
Franklin Obeng-Odoom A Dynamic Study on Ecological Disaster, Government Regulation, and Renewable Resources
Pu-yan Nie, Peng Sun, Bill Z. Yang
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| Population and Development Review
2016: 3/26 (Demography); 7/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 2.792 | The Gender Revolution: A Framework for Understanding Changing Family and Demographic Behavior
Frances Goldscheider, Eva Bernhardt, Trude Lappegård Re-theorizing Family Demographics
Gᴓsta Esping-Andersen, Francesco C. Billari Two Is Best? The Persistence of a Two-Child Family Ideal in Europe
Tomáš Sobotka, Éva Beaujouan
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| The British Journal of Sociology
2016: 39/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 1.594 | Values beyond value? Is anything beyond the logic of capital?
Bev Skeggs A post-genomic surprise. The molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine
Troy Duster Towards intensive parenting? Changes in the composition and determinants of mothers' and fathers' time with children 1992-2006
Lyn Craig, Abigail Powell, Ciara Smyth |
| Canadian Review of Sociology
2016: 71/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 1.022 | Critical Nexus or Pluralist Discipline? Institutional Ambivalence and the Future of Canadian Sociology
Antony J. Puddephatt, Neil McLaughlin A Distinctive Canadian Sociology?
D.B. Tindall Think Tanks, Funding, and the Politics of Policy Knowledge in Canada
John McLevey
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| City & Community
2016: 32/38 (Urban Studies); 107/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 0.541 | Parks for Profit: The High Line, Growth Machines, and the Uneven Development of Urban Public Spaces
Kevin Loughran Moving for the Kids: Examining the Influence of Children on White Residential Segregation
Kimberly Goyette, John Iceland, Elliot Weininger Rigging the Rules of the Game: How Landlords Geographically Sort Low-Income Renters
Eva Rosen
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| Global Networks
2016: 29/82 (Anthropology); 37/79 (Geography); 46/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 1.359 | French connections: the networking strategies of French highly skilled migrants in London
Louise Ryan, Jon Mulholland Forced transnationalism: transnational coping strategies and gendered stigma among Jamaican deportees
Tanya Golash-Boza How social media transform migrant networks and facilitate migration
Rianne Dekker, Godfried Engbersen
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| Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
2016: 64/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 1.09 | Church Attendance, Problems of Measurement, and Interpreting Indicators: A Study of Religious Practice in the United States, 1975-2010
Maurizio Rossi, Ettore Scappini Changing American Congregations: Findings from the Third Wave of the National Congregations Study
Mark Chaves, Shawna L. Anderson An Examination of the "Greening of Christianity" Thesis Among Americans, 1993-2010
John M. Clements, Chenyang Xiao, Aaron M. McCright |
| Journal of Historical Sociology
2016: 20/87 (History); 61/82 (Anthropology); 106/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 0.553 | Turkish Capitalist Modernity and the Gezi Revolt
Ahmet Öncü Colonialism, Decolonisation, and the Right to be Human: Britain and the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees
Lucy Mayblin Unthinking Modernity: Historical-Sociological, Epistemological and Logical Pathways
Gennaro Ascione |
| Journal of Law and Society
2016: 79/147 (Law); 87/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 0.796 | Would John Stuart Mill have Regulated Pornography?
Clare McGlynn, Ian Ward Market Discipline and EU Corporate Governance Reform in the Banking Sector: Merits, Fallacies, and Cognitive Boundaries
Emilios Avgouleas, Jay Cullen Socio-legal Scholarship in Canada: A Review of the Field
Harry Arthurs, Annie Bunting |
| Journal of Marriage and Family
2016: 9/43 (Family Studies); 17/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 2.238 | Does the Amount of Time Mothers Spend With Children or Adolescents Matter?
Melissa A. Milkie, Kei M. Nomaguchi, Kathleen E. Denny Parenthood and Life Satisfaction: Why Don't Children Make People Happy?
Matthias Pollmann-Schult Happy Marriage, Happy Life? Marital Quality and Subjective Well-being in Later Life
Deborah Carr, Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer C. Cornman, Norbert Schwarz
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| Law & Society Review
2016: 30/147 (Law); 34/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 1.7 | Public Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Law and Legal Authorities: Evidence from the Caribbean
Devon Johnson, Edward R. Maguire, Joseph B. Kuhns Everyone Knows the Game: Legal Consciousness in the Hawaiian Cockfight
Kathryne M. Young Work Rules: How International NGOs Build Law in War-Torn Societies
Mark Fathi Massoud |
| Nations and Nationalism
2016: 12/15 (Ethnic Studies); 19/87 (History); 104/143 (Sociology); 122/165 (Political Science)
Impact Factor: 0.582 | Focusing on Chinese nationalism: an inherently flawed perspective? A reply to Allen Carlson
Anna Costa Performing dialogical Dutchness: negotiating a national imaginary in parenting guidance
Rogier van Reekum, Marguerite van den Berg One image, multiple nationalisms: Face to Face and the Siege at Kanehsata:ke
Rima Wilkes, Michael Kehl
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| Rural Sociology
2016: 33/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 1.718 | Rural Environmental Concern: Effects of Position, Partisanship, and Place
Lawrence C. Hamilton, Joel Hartter, Thomas G. Safford, Forrest R. Stevens Development by Dispossession: Terra Nullius and the Social-Ecology of New Enclosures in Ethiopia
Fouad Makki Rethinking Land Grab Ontology
Philip McMichael |
| Social Science Quarterly
2016: 82/143 (Sociology); 96/165 (Political Science)
Impact Factor: 0.849 | Politics, Religion, Attribution Theory, and Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Unions
Andrew L. Whitehead Cultural Characters and Climate Change: How Heroes Shape Our Perception of Climate Science
Michael D. Jones More Likely to Be Poor Whatever the Measure: Working-Age Persons with Disabilities in the United States
Debra L. Brucker, Sophie Mitra, Navena Chaitoo, Joseph Mauro |
| Sociologia Ruralis
2016: 31/79 (Geography); 35/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 1.698 | Exploring Counterurbanisation in a Post-Socialist Context: Case of the Czech Republic
Martin Šimon Agricultural Biotechnology in Central and Eastern Europe: Determinants of Cultivation Bans
Jale Tosun Sustainability and Resilience in Agrifood Systems: Reconnecting Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Claire Lamine
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| Sociological Forum
2016: 5 Year Impact Factor: 1.301 | Lethal Policing: Making Sense of American Exceptionalism
Paul J. Hirschfield Exploring Stigmatization and Stigma Management in Mental Health Court: Assessing Modified Labeling Theory in a New Context
Bradley Ray, Cindy Brooks Dollar From Coalition to Constraint: Modes of Thought in Contemporary American Conservatism
Andrew J. Perrin, J. Micah Roos, Gordon W. Gauchat |
| Sociological Inquiry
2016: 97/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 0.68 | Differences between Cohousing and Gated Communities. A Literature Review
Maria L. Ruiu Measuring Gender Disparity in the HIV Pandemic: A Cross-National Investigation of Female Empowerment, Inequality, and Disease in Less-Developed Nations
Kelly F. Austin, Mark D. Noble Urbanization and Land-Use Change: A Human Ecology of Deforestation Across the United States, 2001-2006
Matthew Thomas Clement, Guangqing Chi, Hung Chak Ho |
| The Sociological Quarterly
2015: Sociology: 80 / 142
Impact Factor: 0.768 | Is Participation Without Power Good Enough? Introduction to "Democracy Now: Ethnographies of Contemporary Participation"
Francesca Polletta Documented, Undocumented, and Liminally Legal: Legal Status During the Transition to Adulthood for 1.5-Generation Brazilian Immigrants
Kara Cebulko Walking the Talk: The Performance of Authenticity in Public Engagement Work
Caroline W. Lee
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| Sociology of Health & Illness
2016: 12/39 (Social Sciences Biomedical); 25/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 1.89 | Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce health inequities
Fran Baum, Matthew Fisher Thinking about changing mobility practices: how a social practice approach can help
Sarah Nettleton, Judith Green Taboo and the different death? Perceptions of those bereaved by suicide orother traumatic death
Alison Chapple, Sue Ziebland, Keith Hawton |
| Symbolic Interaction
2016: 101/143 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 0.63 | It's Just a Likelihood: Uncertainty as Topic and Resource in Conveying "Positive" Results in an Antenatal Screening Clinic
Alison Pilnick, Olga Zayts Masculine Status, Sexual Performance, and the Sexual Stigmatization of Women
Brian N. Sweeney Enacting Blind Spaces and Spatialities: A Sociological Study of Blindness Related to Space, Environment and Interaction
Per Måseide, Håvar Grᴓttland
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