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Social Problems

Social Problems is a journal indexed in SJR in Sociology and Political Science with an H index of 117. It has an SJR impact factor of 2,177 and it has a best quartile of Q1. It is published in English. It has an SJR impact factor of 2,177.

ISSN: 0037-7791

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Category: Sociology and Political Science

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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SJR Impact Factor trending_up

2,177 Q1

H-index 117

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24% Selective

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SJR Impact

2,177

H-index

117

Docs (year)

Docs 3y

188

Total refs

4723

Cites 3y

971

Citable 3y

185

Cites/Doc 2y

4.39

Ref/Doc

76.18

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Best articles by citations

Backyards, NIMBYs, and Incinerator Sitings: Implications for Social Movement Theory

Why One Black Woman Joined the SSSP

Critical Junctures, Labor Movements and the Development of Occupational Welfare in Israel

Crime, Social Control, and the Process of Social Classification: Juvenile Delinquency/ Justice Discourse in Israel, 1948-1970

Crack Dealing, Gender, and Arrest Avoidance

Coping with Insidious Injuries: The Case of Johns-Manville Corporation and Asbestos Exposure

Constructing the Public Good: Social Movements and Cultural Resources

Constructing a Social Problem: The Press and the Environment

Compounded Disadvantage: Race, Incarceration, and Wage Growth

Coalition Framing and the Challenge of a Consonant Frame Pyramid: The Case of a Collaborative Response to Homelessness

Cause and Country: The Politics of Ambivalence and the American Vietnam War Resistance in Canada

Capital Dependence, Business Political Behavior, and Change to the Multilayered Subsidiary Form

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Bodies, Borders, and Sex Tourism in a Globalized World: A Tale of Two Cities - Amsterdam and Havana

"Citizens but for Papers:" Undocumented Youth Organizations, Anti-Deportation Campaigns, and the Reframing of Citizenship

Back Stage atSocial Problems: An Analysis of the Editorial Decision Process, 1993-1996

Assessing Black Enlisted Participation in the Army

Asking for Bread, Receiving a Stone: The Rise and Fall of Religious Ideologies in Chicago's Eight-Hour Movement

Arson, Urban Economy, and Organized Crime: The Case of Boston

Addiction and Welfare Dependency: Interpreting the Connection

A Test of the Accuracy of Crime Statistics

A Test of a Micro-Level Application of Shaming Theory

A Sociology of Human Rights

"The Epistemological Challenge of the Early Attack on ""Rate Construction"

"Reflections on a ""Favorite Journal"

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Social Problems has an SJR of 2,177 (best quartile Q1) in the CountryOfPapers database.

Immediate OA APC is not available (NPD).

The acceptance rate recorded for Social Problems is 24%.

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