Academic Journal
Q1Social Forces
About Social Forces
Social Forces is a scholarly journal published by Oxford University Press. SCImago 2025 places it in Q1 with an SJR of 1.463 and an H-index of 167.
Its listed coverage is 1925-2026 and its research categories include Anthropology (Q1); History (Q1); Sociology and Political Science (Q1). The 2025 dataset reports 75 documents and 839 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, Race, History, and American Society, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Religion and Society Interactions, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics.
Recent Research Articles
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Review of “The Religious Left: What It Does and How It Can Do Better”
Todd Nicholas Fuist
2026-09-18 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag140Review of “Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking into the Creative Economy”
Corey Moss-Pech
2026-09-18 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag138Review of “An Elite Education: How Privilege Is Produced in a Private School”
Nathan D Martin
2026-09-18 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag136Review of “Police Reform: An Obituary”
Rebecca Hanson
2026-09-18 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag137Curricular-credential decoupling: how schools respond to college and career readiness policy
Matt S Giani, Madison E Andrews, Tasneem Sultana, Fortunato N Medrano et al.
2026-09-16 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag133Occupational hazard and political segregation in the US labor market
Ray Tsai Fang
2026-09-13 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag124Review of “The Story of a Generation: Life Course Pathways of the Class of ‘73”
Richard Settersten
2026-09-11 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag114School preferences across countries and social groups: a factorial survey experiment in the United States, Germany and Italy
Guido Salza, Moris Triventi
2026-09-10 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag130Review of “Life After Epidemics: Ebola Survivors and the Social Dimensions of Recovery”
Alexandre White
2026-09-10 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag115Human rights and populist wrongs: how populist incumbents threaten democracy, 1990–2023
Wade M Cole
2026-09-08 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag127Review of “Kid Cops: What Communities Gain and Lose from Junior Police in Schools”
Rebecca D Gleit
2026-09-07 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag128Review of “Believing in Light After Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement”
Bernadette Ludwig
2026-09-04 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag116Working from home among older adults in the UK: examining its link to labor market exit intentions and expected retirement age
Yanan Zhang, Sarah Harper, Senhu Wang, Bing Gong et al.
2026-09-04 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag123Review of “Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand”
Elizabeth Jacobs
2026-09-04 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag113Review of “Sacred Callings: An Eventful Analysis of the Global Catholic Priesthood”
Matthew T Loveland
2026-09-04 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag112Do caring fathers earn less? Earnings consequences of fathers’ parental leave use
Corinna Frodermann, Ann-Christin Bächmann, Andreas Filser
2026-09-04 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag126One overworking breadwinner or two earners? Family economic standard of living by breadwinner arrangement, 1960 to 2018–2022
Andrew Taeho Kim
2026-09-02 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag122Context disadvantage and residential mobility from early life into adulthood: impacts on socio-economic outcomes
Sergi Vidal, Maël Lecoursonnais, Riccardo Valente, Maria Brandén et al.
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag125Correction to: Does stringent climate policy decouple economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions?
2026-08-31 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag131Beyond hiring: the dynamics of ethnic disparities in unemployment
Raffaele Grotti, Siddartha Aradhya, Juho Härkönen
2026-08-26 · DOI: 10.1093/sf/soag121Reviews
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