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Acta Sociologica
H-index 7

Acta Sociologica

0001-6993

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/asj

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 947 13 14 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 19
Documents by Best Scientists*: 19
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 66
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.627
Impact Factor: 1.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Acta Sociologica?

Acta Sociologica facilitates discussions on Social science, Media studies, Politics, Social psychology and Epistemology. The Media studies works featured in it incorporate elements from Anthropology and Religious studies. It investigates Politics research which frequently intersects with Political economy.

  • Social science (11.53%)
  • Media studies (10.27%)
  • Politics (8.46%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Economic Institutions as Social Constructions: A Framework for Analysis: (776 citations)
  • The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Health (434 citations)
  • Work-Life ‘Balance’ in Europe: (321 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Acta Sociologica:

The scientific interests tackled in the most cited articles are Social psychology, Social science, Welfare state, Demographic economics and Labour economics. The Social psychology research tackled in the published articles is interrelated with Social status which concerns subjects like Individual capital and Social position. Concepts in Politics, as well as related topics in Political economy, are covered in the Social science research presented in the journal publications.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Acta Sociologica is organized to address concerns in the fields of Demographic economics, Political economy, Inequality, Immigration and Gender studies. Some problems in Demographic economics that were presented in Acta Sociologica overlapped with concepts under Panel data, Division (mathematics), Economic inequality and Parental leave. The studies in Political economy featured incorporate elements of Welfare state, Europeanisation, Politics, Mythology and Distrust.

It explores topics in Politics which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Media studies and Newspaper. In it, Social class, Economic geography and Regional integration are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Inequality research. Topics in Gender studies explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Old World, Minor (academic), Social movement, Unpacking and Political engagement.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Why do people perceive themselves as being downwardly or upwardly mobile (4 citations)
  • Social origin and compensation patterns over the occupational career in Italy (4 citations)
  • Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada: A network approach (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Acta Sociologica (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ron Eyerman (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Edmund Dahlström (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bo Anderson (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Elina Haavio-Mannila (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Joachim Israel (11 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Acta Sociologica (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Autonomous University of Mexico (173 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stockholm University (96 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Oslo (66 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Helsinki (57 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Copenhagen (49 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 35.82% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.60% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.95% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.63% of all publications and 55.81% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Pathways in Acta Sociologica

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Top Publications

  • Social class and the risk of unemployment: Trends, gender differences and the contribution of education:

    Hannu Lahtinen;Outi Sirniö;Pekka Martikainen

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Has the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo fuelled resistance towards Muslim immigrants in Europe? Results from a natural experiment in six European countries

    (2022)
    26 Citations
  • Narratives of the mystical among users of psychedelics

    Willy Pedersen;Heith Copes;Liridona Gashi

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • Curricular tracking and civic and political engagement: Comparing adolescents and young adults across education systems:

    Jacqueline Witschge;Herman G van de Werfhorst

    (2020)
    15 Citations
  • Educational inequalities in general health : does the curricular tracking system matter?

    Katrijn Delaruelle;Mieke Van Houtte;Piet Bracke

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • From artistic consecration to degradation: The case of Sven Hassel

    (2021)
    4 Citations
  • The institutional machinery of expertise: Producing facts, figures and futures in COVID-19

    Rolf Lidskog;Adam Standring

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • Book Review: Social Class in Europe: New Inequalities in the Old World:

    Mike Savage

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Migration and partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland

    (2022)
    2 Citations
  • Early home-leaving (HL) and educational attainment − The moderating role of HL in the intergenerational transmission of education:

    Hanna Remes;Outi Sirniö;Pekka Martikainen

    (2021)
    2 Citations

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