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Discipline | Social psychology |
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Language | English |
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Former name(s) | Sociometry, Social Psychology |
History | 1937-present |
Publisher | SAGE Publications on behalf of theAmerican Sociological Association |
Frequency | Quarterly |
2.341 (2017) | |
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt ![]() | |
ISO 4 | Soc. Psychol. Q. |
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
ISSN | 0190-2725 (print) 1939-8999 (web) |
JSTOR | 01902725 |
OCLC no. | 643521364 |
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Social Psychology Quarterly is apeer-reviewedacademic journal that publishes theoretical and empirical papers in the field ofsocial psychology. Theeditors-in-chief are Jody Clay-Warner, Dawn Robinson, and Justine Tinkler (University of Georgia). It is published bySAGE Publications on behalf of theAmerican Sociological Association, of which this is an official journal.
The journal was established in 1937 under the titleSociometry byJacob L. Moreno, who served as publisher and chair of theeditorial committee until 1955. In 1955, Moreno transferred ownership of the journal to the American Sociological Society (now the American Sociological Association), which has published the journal continuously since then. The journal's name was changed toSocial Psychology in 1978 and it obtained its current name in 1979.[1]
Social Psychology Quarterly is abstracted and indexed inScopus and theSocial Sciences Citation Index. According to theJournal Citation Reports, its 2017impact factor is 2.341, ranking it 18th out of 64 journals in the category "Psychology, Social".[2]
The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:[3]