''Social Compass'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...

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that covers research in the field of

sociology of religion Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology. This objective investigation may include the use both of quantitative methods (surveys, ...

. The journal's co-directors are Olivier Servais (

University of Louvain A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

) and Frédéric Laugrand (

). The current Editor is Carolina Sappia (

) and the journal is published by

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. 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, currently the International Federation of Institutes for Social & Socio-Religious Research.

Abstracting and indexing

''Social Compass'' is abstracted and indexed in

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and the

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. According to the most recent ''

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'', 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. 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.

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