American Journal of Sociology

*American Journal of Sociology*
Publication details

Discipline	Sociology
Language	English
Edited by	John Levi Martin
History	1895–present
Publisher	University of Chicago Press for The Department of Sociology at The University of Chicago (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	3.232 (2019)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4	Am. J. Sociol.
Indexing
CODEN	AJSOAR
ISSN	0002-9602 (print) 1537-5390 (web)
LCCN	05031884
JSTOR	00029602
OCLC no.	42017129
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The American Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of sociology and related social sciences. It was founded in 1895^[1] as the first journal in its discipline. The current editor is John Levi Martin.^[2] For its entire history, the journal has been housed at the University of Chicago^[3] and published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Past editors

Past editors-in-chief of the journal have been:

Albion Small (1895–1926)
Ellsworth Faris (1933–1936)
Ernest Burgess (1936–1940)
Herbert Blumer (1940–1952)
Everett Hughes (1952–1957)
Peter Rossi (1957–1958)
Everett Hughes (1959–1960)
Peter Blau (1960–1966)
C. Arnold Anderson (1966–1973)
Charles Bidwell (1973–1978)
Edward Laumann (1978–1984)
William Parish (1984–1992)
Marta Tienda (1992–1996)
Edward Laumann (1996–1997)
Roger V. Gould (1997–2000)
Andrew Abbott (2000–2016)
Elisabeth S. Clemens (2016–2022)
John Levi Martin (2022–present)

From 1926 to 1933, the journal was co-edited by a number of different members of the University of Chicago faculty including Ellsworth Faris, Robert E. Park, Ernest Burgess, Fay-Cooper Cole, Marion Talbot, Frederick Starr, Edward Sapir, Louis Wirth, Eyler Simpson, Edward Webster, Edwin Sutherland, William Ogburn, Herbert Blumer, and Robert Redfield.

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor was 3.232, ranking it 8th out of 150 journals in the category "Sociology".^[4]

Roger V. Gould Prize

In 2002, the American Journal of Sociology created the Roger V. Gould prize in memory of its former editor. The $1,000 prize is awarded annually at the American Sociological Association annual meeting to the paper from the previous volume of the journal that most "clearly embodies Roger's ideals as a sociologist: clarity, rigor, and scientific ambition combined with imagination on the one hand and a sure sense of empirical interest, importance, and accuracy on the other."^[5] Winners include Peter Bearman, John Levi Martin, Michael J. Rosenfeld, Elizabeth E. Bruch, Robert D. Mare, Shelley Correll, and Roberto Garvía.

References

^ Elisabeth Gayon (1985). "Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique". In Madeleine Grawitz [in French]; Jean Leca [in French] (eds.). Traité de science politique (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. p. 305. ISBN 2-13-038858-2.
^ "AJS ANNOUNCES NEW EDITOR". AJS. 2022.
^ Small, A. W. (1895). "The Era of Sociology". American Journal of Sociology. 1 (1): 14. ISSN 0002-9602.
^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology". 2019 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ Abbott, Andrew (March 2002). "Roger V. Gould, 1966–2002". American Journal of Sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 107 (5): ii–iii. doi:10.1086/344090. JSTOR 10. S2CID 143122272.