verified SJR 1,047 · Q1 • database Scopus / SJR & Web of Science indexed

Netherlands · Springer Netherlands

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Theory and Society

The journal Theory and Society publishes theoretically-informed analyses of social processes, providing a forum for an international community of scholars. It opens its pages to authors working at the frontiers of social analysis, regardless of discipline. The coverage ranges acr...

ISSN: 0304-2421

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

Category: Sociology and Political Science

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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SJR Impact Factor trending_up

1,047 Q1

H-index 94

Acceptance rate pie_chart

26% Selective

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Publication cost (APC) payments

2.090 € Open Access

Non-OA path 0 €

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Scopus / SJR Web of Science

SJR Impact

1,047

H-index

94

Docs (year)

58

Docs 3y

111

Total refs

4889

Cites 3y

350

Citable 3y

111

Cites/Doc 2y

2.35

Ref/Doc

84.29

Immediate OA

2090 €

Embargoed OA

NPD

Non OA / Submission

0 €

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Best articles by citations

Autonomy, diversity, and dissent: Conceptions of power and sources of action in the Sejarah Melayu (Raffles MS 18)

Divergent responses to a common past: Transitional justice in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Drawing inspiration from Bourdieu's sociology of symbolic power

Haunted by the specter of communism: Collective identity and resource mobilization in the demise of the Workers Alliance of America

Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of religion: A central and peripheral concern

The state of the state

Theorizing in sociology and social science: turning to the context of discovery

Widening access while tightening control: Office-holding, marriages, and elite consolidation in early modern Poland

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Theory and Society has an SJR of 1,047 (best quartile Q1) in the CountryOfPapers database.

Immediate OA APC is 2090 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for Theory and Society is 26%.

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