American Sociological Review
The American Sociological Review is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of sociology and related social sciences. It is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association. It was established in 1936. Along with the American Journal of Sociology, it is considered one of the top journals in the academic field of sociology. The editors-in-chief are David Cort, Laurel Smith-Doerr, and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey.
History
Founding
For its first thirty years, the American Sociological Society was largely dominated by the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and the quasi-official journal of the association was the American Journal of Sociology. The creation of the American Sociological Review has been seen as a rebellion against the dominance of the Chicago school of sociology.In 1935, the executive committee of the American Sociological Society voted 5 to 4 against disestablishing the American Journal of Sociology as the official journal of society, but the measure was passed on for consideration of the general membership, which voted 2 to 1 to establish a new journal independent of the University of Chicago: the American Sociological Review.
Early history
Over the period 1948–1968, more than 60% editors of the American Sociological Review earned their doctorate at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, or Columbia University. Over the period 1955–1965, four out of ten articles in the ASR were by individuals with doctorates from Chicago, Columbia, Harvard or the University of Michigan.Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor is 9.1, ranking it 3rd out of 149 journals in the category "Sociology".