Hi, Ray, There is a ranking of sociology journals by their importance (the "IMPACT" factor is basically a count of how often articles from a journal are cited by the scientific community). The ranking is available through the Web of Science website. The IMPACT factor is considered legitimate by a very wide variety of disciplines, especially the scientific ones where information can be used as part of the tenure review process.
Reference librarians should be able to help you access the IMPACT factors for journals classified as belonging to the discipline of sociology through the web in a few minutes. Once you see the point and click process specific to your institution, it is a breeze to replicate. Right now, there are about 90 journals ranked. The list of ranked journals could be pitched as a very objective "list of "pre-approved" peer-reviewed sociological journals." By the way, I checked this list last week for a friend and found out that the four sociology journals with the top IMPACT scores were, in order: 1. American Sociological Review 2. Annual Review of Sociology 3. American Journal of Sociology 4. Social Problems Thanks for your post Im reading the responses with much interest. Best wishes, Michael -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Muller Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 6:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: TEACHSOC: List of Sociology Journals Hello Everyone, I have an exceedingly hard time getting my students (including senior sociology majors!) to understand what is (and is not) a scholarly sociological source acceptable for a research paper. Now I am thinking of simply distributing a list of "pre-approved" peer-reviewed sociological journals. Does anybody happen to have such a list you could email me per attachment? Thanks Ray Ray Muller, Ph.D. Sociology Department East Stroudsburg University 570-422-3014 (phone) 570-422-3198 (fax) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
