''Social Networks'' is a quarterly
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 review ...
academic journal covering research on
social network theory. The
editors-in-chief are Thomas Valente (
University of Southern California) and Martin Everett (
University of Manchester). It was established in 1979 and is currently published by
Elsevier.
Abstracting and indexing
''Social Networks'' is abstracted and indexed in:
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Anthropological Index
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior ...
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Anthropological Literature
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Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
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Scopus
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Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics. It was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index. The Social Sciences Citation Index is ...
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Sociological Abstracts
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports'', its 2011
impact factor was 2.931, ranking it 6th out of 137 journals in the category "Sociology".
In 2020, the impact factor is 2.376.
References
External links
* {{Official, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-networks
Publications established in 1979
Sociology journals
Social networks
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals