Impact Factor
3.05
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
2.03
378 total citations
h5-index
28
h5 depth signal
Cited share
55.0%
104 of 189
Total citations
378
Citation footprint
Metric signal
2.14
External metric anchor
Self-citation
4.0%
15 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United Kingdom
404
United States
205
Australia
60
Denmark
46
Norway
42
Citing Fields of Research
Sociology
555
Political Science & International Relations
231
Human Geography
165
Economics
127
Education & Pedagogy
117
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
6,980
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
189
104 cited publications
Last 12 months
142
11.8 publications/month
Open access share
52.8%
75 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United Kingdom
404 citing publications
Leading citing field
Sociology
555 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
15 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v16n3,Sept. 1965-
v16n3,Sept. 1965-
Active Coverage
Active Coverage
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Sociology
Political Science & International Relations
Human Geography
Education & Pedagogy
Economics
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
Contributor
London School of Economics and Political Science
Broad Categories
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Political Science & International Relations
Sociology
Modern History
Human Geography
Psychiatry & Psychology
MeSH Descriptors
Sociology
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.70183
Open DOI
Do as I Say, Not as I Do: Exploring the Links Between Parenting Styles, Parental Aspirations, and Socioeconomic Status, and Young People's Post‐School Aspirations in Scotland
There is limited population level empirical evidence examining the relationship between social class and post‐school aspirations in Scotland, and previous research elsewhere finds conflicting results. Without knowledge of the relationshi...
02
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.70185
Open DOI
Temporal Structuration: Negotiating Reproductive Timing in Urban China
This article develops the concept of temporal structuration to explain how actors engage temporal norms as social structures. Based on 64 life story interviews in Shenzhen and analysed through constructivist grounded theory, it examines ...
03
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.70180
Open DOI
The Symbolic Organisation of Political Antagonism: An Integrative Model of Cultural and Social Polarisation
This article develops a cultural and relational model of political polarisation that integrates insights from currently disconnected streams of scholarship to conceive polarisation as a discursive and performative struggle over sacred me...
04
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.70173
Open DOI
Continuity and Distinction of Wealth Elites in Post‐Apartheid South Africa: Mapping the Social Space of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
This article provides the first systematic mapping of wealth elites on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), using original data on individuals linked to significant shareholding entities rather than corporate executives. Through Multip...
05
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.70182
Open DOI
Worrying Expertise: Representation and Expert Knowledge in Trade Unions
Studies of professionalisation, oligarchy and expertise have asked how expertise affects democratic representation in professionalised membership organisations. This article approaches that problem from the other direction by examining t...
06
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.70181
Open DOI
Promoting Precarity or Creating Cushions? Examining Canadians' Experiences With Financialization and Insecurity Across the Life Course
This study examines experiences and perceptions of economic insecurity across individual social trajectories within the context of pervasive financialization in Canada. Drawing on a comprehensive pan‐Canadian survey ( n = 7483) and set o...
07
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.70176
Open DOI
Family Wealth and Wellbeing: The Unequal Distribution of Security Across the Life Course
Wealth inequality is rising in Australia just as the country enters a period of substantial intergenerational wealth transfer. While wealth is known to be linked to health and wellbeing, we know less about whether parents' wealth continu...
08
09
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.70177
Open DOI
Racialised Conditional Capital Conversion: Race, Class and the Limits of Recognition in Elite Organisations
This paper examines how racial inequality persists within organisations alongside career advancement among racialised professionals. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with fifty Chinese professionals in Australia's Big Four firms, we examin...
10
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.70178
Open DOI
Power of Inter‐Chapter Distance: Shaping Social Movement Networks in Extinction Rebellion Australia
This paper examines how distance impacts the network of connections across social movement organisations. Much of the social movements research on scale and spatiality has focused on micro (the immediate vicinity in protest events) and m...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Also issued online.
Indexes: Vols. 1-20, 1950-69, in v. 20; Vols. 21-25, 1970-79, in v. 30.
Vol. 36, no. 1 (1985)19920824 Notice not published Printed on acid-free paper