Journal database · 123 journals
Sociology SCI Journals: Top
Sociology SCI Journals: Top: 123 journals, each with impact factor, CAS zone, review time, APC, open-access status, annual volume and database indexing, and filterable by all of them.
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
IF 3.14CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopReview: about 240 days (submission to acceptance, publisher)APC about USD 3,650Hybrid OA14 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusSOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
IF 3.12CAS Zone 2 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 3,900Hybrid OA115 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusInternational Studies Quarterly
IF 3.11CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 4,320Hybrid OA82 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusInternational Political Sociology
IF 3.07CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 4,320Hybrid OA51 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusPerspectives on Politics
IF 3.05CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 3,550Hybrid OA386 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusReview of International Studies
IF 3.05CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 3,550Hybrid OA99 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusVirginia Law Review
IF 3.05CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopGold OA29 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE
IF 3.04CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 3,900Hybrid OA110 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusDemocratization
IF 3.02CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopReview: median 200 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedHybrid OA144 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusJOURNAL OF POLITICS
IF 3.01CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopSubscription176 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusColumbia Law Review
IF 2.97CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopSubscription47 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusPolitics & Society
IF 2.97CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 3,650Hybrid OA18 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusSocial Science Research
IF 2.84CAS Zone 2 · Sociology · TopReview: median 264 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,020Hybrid OA114 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusPolitical Studies
IF 2.73CAS Zone 2 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 3,650Hybrid OA89 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusQualitative Research
IF 2.72CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 3,650Gold OA153 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusSociological Science
IF 2.71CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopReview: about 6 weeksAPC about USD 575Gold OA40 articles/yrSSCI · Scopus · DOAJBritish Journal of Sociology
IF 2.63CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopReview: median 193 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,840Hybrid OA136 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusPoetics
IF 2.62CAS Zone 2 · Sociology · TopReview: about 410 days (submission to acceptance, publisher)APC about USD 3,390Hybrid OA54 articles/yrSSCI · AHCI · ScopusSocial Forces
IF 2.61CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 4,152Hybrid OA243 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusEthnic and Racial Studies
IF 2.48CAS Zone 2 · Sociology · TopReview: median 199 days to acceptanceHybrid OA359 articles/yrSSCI · Scopus
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About these figures
- Impact factor is the latest value LetPub lists. CAS zone is the major-category zone of the Chinese Academy of Sciences journal ranking, 2025 upgraded edition by default and switchable to the 2026 Xinrui edition; Top and review-journal flags are kept per edition.
- Review time is first the median from submission to acceptance of the journal's own articles from the last 24 months (Crossref / PubMed dates, at least 10 articles), then the publisher's stated submission-to-acceptance, final-decision or post-review decision time, then the community's average report. A publisher's "time to first decision" includes desk rejections and is used only when nothing else exists. Each source is labelled.
- APC is taken from DOAJ, OpenAlex, the publisher's website and LetPub, in that order; a hybrid journal's APC applies only to articles published open access.
- Articles per year is OpenAlex's count for the last complete year, or LetPub's annual article count when that is missing.