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Current Sociology
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Current Sociology

0011-3921

Published by: SAGE

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

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 779 8 11 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 13
Documents by Best Scientists*: 15
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 86
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.962
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Current Sociology?

Current Sociology primarily focuses on research topics in Social science, Gender studies, Political economy, Politics and Economic growth. Discussions in Current Sociology are anchored in the subject of Social science and the similar topic of Social change. The studies in Gender studies featured incorporate elements of Identity (social science) and Context (language use).

It connects the study in Political economy with the closely related area of Globalization.

  • Social science (21.47%)
  • Gender studies (15.51%)
  • Political economy (8.91%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A Dimensional Approach to Measuring Social Capital: Development and Validation of a Social Capital Inventory: (605 citations)
  • A new professionalism? Challenges and opportunities: (408 citations)
  • Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Glocalization (323 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Current Sociology:

The journal papers focus on Social science, Gender studies, Political economy, Economic growth and Globalization. The published papers explore research in Social order and overlapping concepts in Social philosophy to expand the discourse in Social science. The featured Political economy studies in the most cited articles mainly concentrate on Politics but also cover areas of interest in Economy.

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:

Current Sociology aims to foster the development of research in Gender studies, Political economy, Politics, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Media studies. Some problems in Gender studies that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Citizenship, Secondary education, Immigration, Ethnic group and Middle class. In the journal, Indigenous and Colonialism are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Political economy research.

It explores topics in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Public relations and Health professionals. Current Sociology tackles research in various disciplines, including Media studies and Framing (construction). Pandemic research featured in Current Sociology incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Welfare state, Exceptionalism, Herd immunity, Risk society and Legitimacy.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean: (5 citations)
  • Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media (4 citations)
  • Sociology’s encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity (3 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 Current Sociology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Richard Swedberg (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Dennis Smith (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Frederick H. Gareau (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Susan A. McDaniel (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Leopold Rosenmayr (7 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 Current Sociology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National University of Singapore (15 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Cambridge (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Sydney (14 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Nottingham (10 papers) published 1 paper 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, 7.20% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.07% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.62% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.10% of all publications and 61.21% 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.

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Top Publications

  • Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media

    Brigitte Nerlich;Rusi Jaspal

    (2021)
    45 Citations
  • Temporary organizing and permanent contexts

    Jörg Sydow;Arnold Windeler

    (2020)
    37 Citations
  • What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems

    (2022)
    18 Citations
  • Developing the concept of society: Institutional domains, regimes of inequalities and complex systems in a global era:

    Sylvia Walby

    (2021)
    17 Citations
  • Gendered objects and gendered spaces: The invisibilities of ‘knife’ crime:

    Elizabeth A Cook;Sandra Walklate

    (2020)
    15 Citations
  • Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts

    (2022)
    11 Citations
  • Warriors against the ‘War on Drugs’: Lay experts in Norwegian drug policy

    Willy Pedersen;Cathrine Holst;Live Kjos Fjell

    (2021)
    9 Citations
  • Re-imagining what counts as femicide

    (2023)
    4 Citations
  • Editing as Manual Work

    (2022)
    0 Citations
  • The stealth rise of control: Forgotten trust in contemporary professionalism

    (2024)
    0 Citations

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