Contemporary Sociology

Contemporary Sociology

Discipline	Sociology
Language	English
Edited by	Yasemin Besen–Cassino
Publication details
History	1972–present
Publisher	SAGE Publications for the American Sociological Association (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	0.34 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Contemp. Sociol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	C0S0AG
ISSN	0094-3061 (print) 1939-8638 (web)
LCCN	72621888
JSTOR	00943061
OCLC no.	958948
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Contemporary Sociology is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal of sociology published by SAGE Publications in association with the American Sociological Association since 1972. Each issue of the journal publishes many in-depth as well as brief reviews of recent publications in sociology and related disciplines, as well as a list of publications received that have not been reviewed. In 2010 the journal published just under 400 book reviews.^[1] In addition, the journal also publishes a small number of review essays and discursive articles in each issue. The editor-in-chief is Yasemin Besen–Cassino (Montclair State University).^[2]

Contemporary Sociology is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, CSA Sociological Abstracts, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 0.34, ranking it 134th out of 146 journals in the "Sociology" category.^[3]

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