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| Discipline | Social sciences |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Arne L. Kalleberg |
| Publication details | |
Former name | The Journal of Social Forces |
| History | 1922–present |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press for the Department of Sociology at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 3.575 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Soc. Forces |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0037-7732 |
| LCCN | 2001-227382 |
| JSTOR | 00377732 |
| OCLC no. | 48534262 |
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Social Forces (formerlyThe Journal of Social Forces) is a quarterlypeer-reviewedacademic journal ofsocial science published byOxford University Press for the Department of Sociology at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It concentrates onsociology but also has a multidisciplinary approach, publishing works from the fields ofsocial psychology,anthropology,political science,history, andeconomics. Each issue includes between 20 and 25 articles. In addition, the journal also publishesbook reviews.
Social Forces was established byHoward W. Odum in 1922[1] asThe Journal of Social Forces.[2] The name was changed relatively quickly; since 1925 (volume 4), it has been published asSocial Forces.Oxford University Press took over publication of the journal from theUniversity of North Carolina Press in 2011.[3]
This journal isedited byArne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
Social Forces is abstracted and indexed in theSocial Sciences Citation Index. According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020impact factor of 3.575, ranking it 23rd out of 149 journals in the category "Sociology".[4]
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