Social Networks (journal) explained

Social Networks
Editor:	Ulrik Brandes, Tom Valente
Discipline:	Sociology, Social network theory
Abbreviation:	Soc. Netw.
Publisher:	Elsevier for the International Network for Social Network Analysis
Frequency:	Quarterly
History:	1979–present
Impact:	3.1
Impact-Year:	2022
Website:	http://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-networks
Link1:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03788733
Link1-Name:	Online access
Issn:	0378-8733
Oclc:	473324852
Lccn:	82643204

Social Networks is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on social network theory. The editors-in-chief are Thomas Valente (University of Southern California) and Ulrik Brandes (ETH Zurich). It was established in 1979 and is currently published by Elsevier.

Abstracting and indexing

Social Networks is abstracted and indexed in:

• Anthropological Index
• Anthropological Literature
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Sociological Abstracts

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2011 impact factor was 2.931, ranking it 6th out of 137 journals in the category "Sociology".^[1]

Notes and References

1. Book: 2011 . Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology . 2011 Journal Citation Reports . . Social Sciences . Web of Science . Journal Citation Reports .