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Explore open access research in sociology, examining social structures, culture, inequality, law, family and societal change.

Frontiers in Sociology is a multidisciplinary journal that highlights and explores the key challenges of human societies that connect personal troubles with wide social and economic processes. How do human relationshi...

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Carol Stephenson

Northumbria University

United Kingdom

Specialty Chief Editor

Work, Employment and Organizations

Guillermina Jasso

New York University

United States

Specialty Chief Editor

Migration and Society

Håkan Hydén

Department of Sociology of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University

Sweden

Specialty Chief Editor

Sociology of Law

John Offer

Ulster University

United Kingdom

Specialty Chief Editor

Sociological Theory

Kath Woodward

The Open University (United Kingdom)

United Kingdom

Specialty Chief Editor

Gender, Sex and Sexualities

Manuela Naldini

University of Turin

Italy

Specialty Chief Editor

Sociology of Families

Maria Berghs

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

Specialty Chief Editor

Medical Sociology

150 editors · 0 reviewers

About the journal

Scope

Frontiers in Sociology is a multidisciplinary journal that highlights and explores the key challenges of human societies that connect personal troubles with wide social and economic processes. How do human relationships and social structures interact to form society in terms of hierarchies, networks, movements, inequalities and collaborations. Led by Field Chief Editor Hannah Bradby (Uppsala University, Sweden), the journal is indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), Scopus, DOAJ, and Web of Science (ESCI), among others. Frontiers in Sociology welcomes research with a focus on ideas, models, and literatures of sociology, but also political science, economics, history, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and statistics. The journal welcomes critical and analytic approaches to understanding the social. Topics include, but are not limited to: gender, sex and sexualities media governance and the public sphere medical sociology migration and society race and ethnicity sociological theory sociology of emotion sociology of law sociology of stratification urban ecology work, employment, and organizations. Research contributions that bridge the gap between theory and empirical investigation within various domains of sociology are encouraged and innovative research design is welcome. Manuscripts that focus solely on medical or clinical aspects of disease, without a clear sociological perspective, are not suitable for publication in this journal. Similarly, studies that are purely mathematical or statistical in nature, without a clear sociological application or relevance, are not appropriate for this journal. Research that is primarily policy-oriented, without a clear sociological framework or analysis, is also not suitable for this journal. Research that is purely descriptive, without a clear analytic approach is not likely to be suitable for this journal. Frontiers in Sociology is committed to advancing developments in the field by allowing unrestricted access to articles and communicating scientific knowledge to researchers and the public alike, to enable the scientific breakthroughs of the future.

Aims

Frontiers in Sociology is a multidisciplinary journal that highlights and explores the key challenges of human societies that connect personal troubles with wide social and economic processes. How do human relationships and social structures interact to form society in terms of hierarchies, networks, movements, inequalities and collaborations.

Led by Field Chief Editor Hannah Bradby (Uppsala University, Sweden), the journal is indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), Scopus, DOAJ, and Web of Science (ESCI), among others. Frontiers in Sociology welcomes research with a focus on ideas, models, and literatures of sociology, but also political science, economics, history, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and statistics. The journal welcomes critical and analytic approaches to understanding the social.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

gender, sex and sexualities

media governance and the public sphere

medical sociology

migration and society

race and ethnicity

sociological theory

sociology of emotion

sociology of law

sociology of stratification

urban ecology

work, employment, and organizations.

Research contributions that bridge the gap between theory and empirical investigation within various domains of sociology are encouraged and innovative research design is welcome.

Manuscripts that focus solely on medical or clinical aspects of disease, without a clear sociological perspective, are not suitable for publication in this journal. Similarly, studies that are purely mathematical or statistical in nature, without a clear sociological application or relevance, are not appropriate for this journal. Research that is primarily policy-oriented, without a clear sociological framework or analysis, is also not suitable for this journal. Research that is purely descriptive, without a clear analytic approach is not likely to be suitable for this journal.

Frontiers in Sociology is committed to advancing developments in the field by allowing unrestricted access to articles and communicating scientific knowledge to researchers and the public alike, to enable the scientific breakthroughs of the future.

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/about

ISSN
2297-7775
Editor-in-Chief
Hannah Bradby (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden) — Field Chief Editor
Established
2026

Sections

  • Gender, Sex and Sexualities

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/gender-sex-and-sexualities

  • Media Governance and the Public Sphere

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/media-governance-and-the-public-sphere

  • Medical Sociology

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/medical-sociology

  • Migration and Society

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/migration-and-society

  • Race and Ethnicity

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/race-and-ethnicity

  • Sociological Theory

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/sociological-theory

  • Sociology of Emotion

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/sociology-of-emotion

  • Sociology of Families

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/sociology-of-families

  • Sociology of Law

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/sociology-of-law

  • Sociology of Stratification

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/sociology-of-stratification

  • Urban Sociology

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/urban-sociology

  • Work, Employment and Organizations

    Official section page: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/work-employment-and-organizations

Article types accepted

  • Original Research
  • Systematic Review
  • Methods
  • Review
  • Mini Review
  • Policy and Practice Reviews
  • Hypothesis and Theory
  • Perspective
  • Clinical Trial
  • Community Case Study
  • Conceptual Analysis
  • Data Report
  • Policy Brief
  • Brief Research Report
  • General Commentary
  • Opinion
  • Correction
  • Editorial
  • Registered Report
  • Technology and Code
  • Study Protocol
  • FAIR² Data

Fees and currencies

  • Article processing charges (official)
  • - Category A: CHF 1,495 — Original Research, Systematic Review, Methods, Review, Policy and Practice Reviews, Hypothesis and Theory, Clinical Trial, Registered Report, Technology and Code, Study Protocol
  • - Category B: CHF 990 — Mini Review, Perspective, Community Case Study, Conceptual Analysis, Data Report, Policy Brief, Brief Research Report, General Commentary, Opinion
  • - Category C: CHF 0 — Correction, Editorial
  • Currency: CHF

Fees are charged only after acceptance. Waivers and discounts are available for authors with limited funding.

Fees and waivers policy

Editorial policies

Peer review

  • Official peer-review process: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/peer-review

Publication ethics

  • Policies and publication ethics: https://www.frontiersin.org/guidelines/policies-and-publication-ethics

Indexing

  • Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
  • CNKI Scholar
  • CLOCKSS
  • Crossref
  • Dimensions
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences GoOA
  • OpenAIRE
  • Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
  • DOAJ
  • EBSCO
  • Scopus
  • PubMed
  • PubMed Central (PMC)
  • Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • ZBMED
  • ProQuest

Affiliated societies

  • Committee on Publication Ethics

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/about

Instructions for authors

Accepted article types

  • Original Research (fee category A)
  • Systematic Review (fee category A)
  • Methods (fee category A)
  • Review (fee category A)
  • Mini Review (fee category B)
  • Policy and Practice Reviews (fee category A)
  • Hypothesis and Theory (fee category A)
  • Perspective (fee category B)
  • Clinical Trial (fee category A)
  • Community Case Study (fee category B)
  • Conceptual Analysis (fee category B)
  • Data Report (fee category B)
  • Policy Brief (fee category B)
  • Brief Research Report (fee category B)
  • General Commentary (fee category B)
  • Opinion (fee category B)
  • Correction (fee category C)
  • Editorial (fee category C)
  • Registered Report (fee category A)
  • Technology and Code (fee category A)
  • Study Protocol (fee category A)
  • FAIR² Data

Author guidelines

  • https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/for-authors/author-guidelines

Peer review

  • https://www.frontiersin.org/about/peer-review

Journal metrics

Citation score
4.0
Impact indicator
0.65
Acceptance rate
48%
Articles
50
Total views
0
Downloads
0
Citations
17,572

Internal metrics, calculated on this platform and maintained by the editorial office.

Official bibliometric indicators

Impact factor
2.3
CiteScore
4.0
Citations
17572
Acceptance rate
33
Time to publication
98

Source: official publisher page · retrieved 2026-10-16

Some values were updated by the editorial office on 2026-10-22.