Social Compass

*Social Compass*
Discipline	Sociology of religion
Language	English, French
Edited by	Caroline Sappia
Publication details
History	1953-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	0.625 (2019)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Soc. Compass
Indexing;
ISSN	0037-7686 (print); 1461-7404 (web);
LCCN	67122874
OCLC no.	42208179
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

Social Compass is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of sociology of religion. The journal's co-directors are Olivier Servais (University of Louvain) and Frédéric Laugrand (University of Louvain). The current Editor is Carolina Sappia (University of Louvain) and the journal is published by SAGE Publications.

It was established in 1953 and published in the Netherlands until coming to be administered by the Catholic organization of FERES (Fédération Internationale des Instituts Catholiques de Recherches socio-religieuses) in the early 1960s,^[1] currently the .

Abstracting and indexing[]

Social Compass is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the most recent Journal Citation Reports, it is ranked 118 out of 148 in Sociology and has a 2-year Impact Factor of 0.625. Its 5-year Impact Factor is 0.870 and it is ranked 110 out of 148 in Sociology. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) in 2019, the journal was ranked 13 out of 490 in Religious Studies.^[2]

Total citations made in the JCR year to content published in a journal in the prior five years are divided by the number of articles and reviews published by the journal in the prior five years.^[3]

References[]

^ Maître, J. (1960). "VIe Conférence internationale de sociologie religieuse (Bologne, 3-6 sept. 1959)". Revue française de sociologie. 1 (1–2): 222–223. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ "Social Comapss- SJR Ranking Information". Retrieved June 11, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology". 2010 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2011.

External links[]

Official website

[Persee-1] Maître, J. (1960). "VIe Conférence internationale de sociologie religieuse (Bologne, 3-6 sept. 1959)". Revue française de sociologie. 1 (1–2): 222–223. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

[2] "Social Comapss- SJR Ranking Information". Retrieved June 11, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[WoS-3] "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology". 2010 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2011.

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