Frontiers in Sociology: Impact Factor 2026, APC, Indexing and Published Papers

01Impact factor

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03Indexing

Indexing of Frontiers in Sociology

eISSN

2297-7775

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA

Country

Switzerland

Language

English

Scopus source type

Journal

Web of Science categories

Sociology

From the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab, updated 1 March 2026. Indexing can change: confirm on the Web of Science Master Journal List or the Scopus source list before submitting. Official Journal Impact Factors and JCR quartiles are published by Clarivate; the impact factor and quartile on this page are calculated from OpenAlex open data (see how the impact factor works).

04What it publishes

What Frontiers in Sociology publishes: real papers

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05Published papers

Papers published in Frontiers in Sociology

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1. Distinguishing complementary and alternative medicine: the role of religion, healthcare system satisfaction and country context20260 citations
2. Standard employment and segmentation practices within the automotive industry in South Africa20260 citations
3. Vulnerabilities among children of20260 citations
4. The effect of father-child engagement on maternal life satisfaction in South Asian contexts: evidence from MICS surveys in Pakistan and Bangladesh20260 citations
5. Seeing Bensheim's refugee tent city: reflections on researcher-and respondent-generated photo-elicitation of the spatial dimensions of racial discrimination20260 citations
6. Reimagining “racial” stratification and inequality: inter-and intraracial colorism in Trinidad and Tobago20260 citations
7. Transcendental model selection: a computational account of symbolic cognition and general intelligence through morality and culture20260 citations
8. Network analysis of workplace mobbing, work–family conflict, and mental health in adults from the general population20260 citations
9. Lessons from the Khanom nuclear power plant conflict: community resistance, discursive strategies, and sustainable development in southern Thailand20260 citations
10. Practice as research as a decolonial praxis: Yoruba culture retrieval20260 citations
11. Rosa Gatti20260 citations
12. Invisible lines of inequality: intersections of gender, motherhood, and work-based discrimination in Bulgaria20260 citations
13. “Reddit's dark knight”: moral inversion, digital populism, and the aesthetic of resistance20260 citations
14. The psychological significance of female traditional initiation rites among the Bakopa community of South Africa: a qualitative approach to the understanding of koma …20260 citations
15. Being (a) patient—navigating desire through online communities in assisted reproductive technology20260 citations
16. Geneticization in the genomic era: a scoping review of ethical, clinical, and sociocultural transformations20260 citations
17. (De) Constructing invisible barriers: the gender projection model of organizational inequality20250 citations
18. Breaking barriers: gender diversity and environmental identity in Pakistan's ranger workforce20250 citations
19. Trans materialist critique as feminist practice: lessons from a polemic against nonbinary identities20250 citations
20. Skills and epistemic cultures in artificial intelligence research: evidence from job postings20250 citations
21. Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the Italian press and social media20250 citations
22. Freak to queer bodies: affirming the grotesque in contemporary art20250 citations
23. The 3T model of military veteran radicalization and extremism: exploring risk factors and protective strategies20250 citations
24. Coding the future: digital technologists and the constitution of the next system20250 citations
25. Improving police recorded crime data for domestic violence and abuse through natural language processing20250 citations
26. Subverting patriarchal narratives: a feminist approach to critical video game design through participatory methods20250 citations
27. Ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence and big data in population health: a scoping review20250 citations
28. Faces of exclusion: the “social,” the “digital” and “digital racism” in a decolonial critical essay20250 citations
29. Enhancing father involvement of earthquake-affected fathers: a qualitative analysis20250 citations
30. Changing self-identification among immigrants in the United States20250 citations
31. The presentation of self in the age of ChatGPT20250 citations
32. Rethinking ressentiment: democratic and urban implications20250 citations
33. Emplacement of trauma in migrant spaces: non-places and unhomeliness in Living Undocumented and Stateless20250 citations
34. Rethinking social action through the info-ecological dimensions of two collaborative public health platforms: the people's health movement and the citizen sense …20250 citations
35. Sense-making as digitalization. Measuring, counting, and calculating as fundamental processes of digital 'Bildung'20250 citations
36. Assessing gender role attributes in native Persian speakers: translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the Persian version of the personal attribute …20250 citations
37. “I dream of an island”: Black joy, storytelling and the art of refusal. Creative methodologies and decolonial praxis in higher education20250 citations
38. Beyond victimhood: rethinking communicative resilience and child transformation after parental divorce in Indonesia20250 citations
39. How the congruence between20250 citations
40. Unveiling the determinants of femicide in Ecuador: A comprehensive analysis20250 citations
41. Gendering of Indian judiciary as a roadmap towards an equitable legal system and progressive gender-sensitive jurisprudence20250 citations
42. “I am used to being extremely patient because I'm forced to be”: the affective politics of accommodation for disabled archivists20250 citations
43. Imagining the metaverse court: a conversation between science fiction and Shakespeare20250 citations
44. The meaning of “total pain” in the context of living and dying with dementia20250 citations
45. Toward a politics of shame: cripping understandings of affect in disabled people's encounters with unsolicited advice20250 citations
46. A comprehensive overview of a large-scale survey on inequality perceptions (IneqPer) in Italy20250 citations
47. A view from the top: how South African women leaders shatter the glass ceiling20250 citations
48. Color me khmao: the effects of social factors on colorism among Khmer women20250 citations
49. Examining the effects of social media storytelling on Gen Z supporting cultural heritage and sustainability in the United Arab Emirates20250 citations
50. Gender, work, and satisfaction: a decomposition approach to job satisfaction gaps in Egypt and Tunisia20250 citations
51. Managing gender diversity and barriers to inclusion: lived experiences of women employees in a South African coal mining company20250 citations
52. Between normative universality and sharing embodied knowledge–exploring the (re-) definition of legitimate knowledge and knowers using the example of the …20250 citations
53. Colourism and law in the UK: a story of colonial indifference?20250 citations
54. The promotion of social sustainability by micro-level social inclusion in a multicultural context: literature review and interview evidence20250 citations
55. Experiences of trans women who have undergone gender affirmation surgery: a constructivist grounded theory20250 citations
56. Surviving in the trails: teacher's lived experiences in remote areas20250 citations
57. Why are we awake? Algorithmic serendipity and the sociology of sleeplessness20250 citations
58. Youth, work, and equity: rethinking decent work through gender lens20250 citations
59. Between traditions and globalization: value orientations of Kazakhstani youth20250 citations
60. “Space to see the future”? A political economy analysis of child and adolescent mental health and well-being in Ethiopia including routes for change20250 citations
61. Globalization backlands: labor and territory20250 citations
62. Beyond boundaries: fostering women entrepreneurs' success through culture, family, and entrepreneurship20250 citations
63. Nature–culture relationship process—toward constellar relationality20250 citations
64. Forging an interdisciplinary lens for understanding community digital archives of South Asian diaspora20250 citations
65. The systemic marginalisation of long-term casualised researchers in UK Higher Education20250 citations
66. Bridging the gap between objective and subjective well-being among first generation immigrants: exploring the role of religion and spirituality20250 citations
67. Migrations, arts, and bodies: the Silhouette in multiple shadows of Rubiane Maia20250 citations
68. Digital empowerment of women in the South African public sector20250 citations
69. Resilience and adaptive capacities of societies: social and cultural strategies20250 citations
70. Decoding short-term fertility intentions: exploring the nexus of gender equality and societal factors in a comparative EU gender regimes analysis20250 citations
71. Constructing unverifiable reality: a qualitative study of the prison planet conspiracy hypothesis on YouTube20250 citations
72. Social media impact on societal security20250 citations
73. Researching urban diversity and the (re-) production of whiteness: reflections on the purchase and challenges of sensory methods20250 citations
74. When fiction meets reality: ethnofiction as a way of constructing youth narratives about delinquent paths20250 citations
75. Present (ed) bodies, absent agency:“patients' perspectives” at the Museum Vrolik of the body and medicine20250 citations
76. Feeling the fear of many: Orienting affects in Swedish austerity politics20250 citations
77. Job shadowing adults' non-formal education programme through social-emotional learning20250 citations
78. 'Unburden us and them': encountering 'the other'in meetings between Bosnian genocide survivors and Dutch UN veterans20250 citations
79. The labor market of digital labor platforms in Chile: companies, state regulation and workers20250 citations
80. Newtonian-cultural motion method: a transdisciplinary method for migrant studies20250 citations
81. Engaging in moral learning: veterans' perspectives on how the moral dimensions of moral injury are addressed in one-on-one meetings with Dutch military chaplains20250 citations
82. The utilization of the concept of profession to understand social problems: sharing preliminary results from systematic review20250 citations
83. Female intuition in economics and conscious leadership: a comprehensive integrative review of conceptual foundations, cultural moderators, and future directions20250 citations
84. When normality collapses from one moment to the next. A sociological theory of singular crisis20250 citations
85. Women's intuition as attunement: a biological and social perspective20250 citations
86. Developing an integrated conceptual framework of NewWork-settings: a systematic scoping review20250 citations
87. Navigating identity: the experiences of Chinese women adopted into families20250 citations
88. Graying arts access: crafting creative online programming to promote older adults' artistic engagement in and beyond pandemic time20240 citations
89. A study about the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics, spirituality, and mental health among emerging adults in metro Manila: findings on higher …20240 citations
90. Navigating resistance on digital platforms: delivery and transportation labor in Türkiye20240 citations
91. Digital Migration Infrastructure in return-writing: visualizing the migration landscape of India20240 citations
92. “No one talks about it”: using emotional methodologies to overcome climate silence and inertia in Higher Education20240 citations
93. Rise of remote work across borders: opportunities and implications for migrant-sending countries20240 citations
94. Barriers to rural women's participation in social insurance for farmers, villagers, and nomads: the case of Iran20240 citations
95. Gender systems in the Putin autocracy20240 citations
96. The gender achievement gap in grades and standardised tests—what accounts for gender inequality?20240 citations
97. From jobs to careers: drivers and barriers to career development in emerging labor markets20240 citations
98. Do different survey methods affect physicians' stated work preferences? Findings from a discrete choice experiment in eastern China20240 citations
99. What's emotion got to do with it? Reflections on the buildings of the Portuguese (Family) Courts20240 citations
100. Public discourse and wilful incommensurability: a case for attentive free speech20240 citations
101. Is society caught up in a death spiral? Modeling societal demise and its reversal20240 citations
102. Preserving the self with artificial intelligence using VIPCare—a virtual interaction program for dementia caregivers20240 citations
103. Feminist perspectives on20240 citations
104. Straight from foster care to the youth detention center? The (mis) paths of child protection and juvenile justice policies in the construction of violent masculinities20230 citations
105. Integrating Ubuntu: embedding African philosophy into disaster risk reduction and management20230 citations
106. Pandemic and new perspectives on living: the role of the smart home20230 citations
107. Detecting informal green, blue, and street physical activity spaces in the city using geotagged sports-related Twitter tweets20230 citations
108. Collecting migrants' Facebook posts: Accounting for ethical measures in a text-as-data approach20230 citations
109. White masculinity and the radical right in Europe: an intersectional analytical framework20230 citations
110. Examining gendered cassava trait preferences through commercial seed business: a case study of IITA GoSeed and Umudike Seeds in Nigeria20230 citations
111. QAnon, authoritarianism, and conspiracy within American alternative spiritual spaces20230 citations
112. Green skills gap—A way ahead20230 citations
113. Youth development under digital surveillance: challenges, opportunities, and future directions20230 citations
114. Immigration, language education, & trauma: exploring the intersectionality of gay Dominican immigrant experiences20230 citations
115. Recognition and inequalities in older adults' sexuality in Chile20230 citations
116. Social exclusion and psychopathology in LGBTQ+ communities: A neuropsychosocial review20230 citations
117. Constrained to be (im) mobile? Refugees' and Asylum seekers' practices to integrate in restrictive socio-economic urban contexts in Northern Italy20230 citations
118. A democracy built on communicative action: Bahá'í political practice as a prefigurative resource for institutional effectiveness, accountability, and inclusivity20230 citations
119. Climate-neutral and Smart Cities: a critical review through the lens of environmental justice20230 citations
120. Body, gender, race and fatness in social studies. Gap and future20230 citations
121. Learning journeys–student learning development in the first years of a medical degree: an analysis of student conversations20230 citations
122. Hope for the forgotten poor: Chinese male migrants, affective labor and the livestreaming industry20230 citations
123. Behind the curtain: unveiling the challenges faced by daily wage teachers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa universities, Pakistan20230 citations
124. Embodied experiences of lived citizenship beyond the European privilege. The case-study of Romanian women farmworkers in eastern Sicily20230 citations
125. Scaling up social entrepreneurship to reduce poverty: Exploring the challenges and opportunities through stakeholder engagement20230 citations
126. Beyond multiculturalism? Rethinking Japan's “tabunka-kyōsei” through Axel Honneth's theory of recognition20230 citations
127. Depopulation and aging–challenges for Croatia's climate resilience20230 citations
128. Social pathologies, recognition, and forms of life20230 citations
129. Efficient and reliable geocoding of German Twitter data to enable spatial data linkage to official statistics and other data sources20220 citations
130. The vulnerability-stress-model—holding up the construct of the faulty individual in the light of challenges to the medical model of mental distress20220 citations
131. Leveraging dynamic heterogeneous networks to study transnational issue publics. The case of the European COVID-19 discourse on Twitter20220 citations
132. Socio-economic implications of COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia: emerging risks and growing challenges20210 citations
133. Us” and “them”: collective identity-building of far-right movements in Chemnitz and “Querdenken20210 citations
134. TechnoBrainBodies-in-Cultures: An intersectional case20210 citations
135. Social mobility, health and wellbeing in Poland20210 citations

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