LibGuides: Sociology: Journals and e-journals

What are journals?

A scholarly journal is a publication released in regular instalments which contains research relating to a particular subject area. These are often referred to as periodicals or serials.

Journals are useful when you:

are seeking information for your assignment or literature review
need to find recently published papers on a particular topic
want to identify important and current research in your field
commence the ‘scoping exercise’ for your research project.

Find journals using SuperSearch

SuperSearch is a portal that provides a single search across the majority of ANU Library resources.

SuperSearch is a great place to start searching for journal articles. Here are some tips to get you started:

Refine your results by using search filters.
- Select Articles under Format to search for articles only.
- Select Journals under Format to search for journals only.
Click Journal Search from the top menu to search by title or browse by category.
Use Advance search to filter by a particular date of publication, language or format.

You can get additional help with searching for journal articles through the Finding Journal Articles and More guide.

American Journal of Sociology
Established in 1895 as the first US scholarly journal in its field, American Journal of Sociology presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods.
Annual Review of Sociology
The Annual Review of Sociology is an annual peer-reviewed review journal published by Annual Reviews since 1975. It is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Journal of Consumer Culture
The Journal of Consumer Culture is an established journal, supporting and promoting the continuing expansion in interdisciplinary research focused on consumption and consumer culture, opening up debates and areas of exploration. Global in perspective and drawing on both theory and empirical research, the journal reflects the need to engage critically with modern consumer culture and to understand its central role in contemporary social processes.
Gender and Society
Gender & Society, the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, is a top-ranked journal in sociology and women's studies and publishes less than 10% of all papers submitted to it. Articles analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces.
Sociological Review
The Sociological Review is one of the world’s foremost journals for sociological inquiry in all traditions, with over 100 years of publishing high quality and innovative articles. The journal is committed to the far-reaching intellectualism of sociological thought as well as championing a cause: that sociology matters.
Sociology Compass
Sociology Compass publishes state-of-the-art reviews, supported by a comprehensive bibliography. Sociology Compass is aimed at senior undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, providing a unique reference tool for researching essays, preparing lectures, writing research proposals, or just keeping up with new research.
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory publishes work in all areas of theory, including new substantive theories, history of theory, metatheory, formal theory construction, and synthetic contributions. Peer reviewed and published quarterly, Sociological Theory is renowned for featuring the best international research and scholarship and is essential reading for sociologists.

The Journal of Sociology
Journal of Sociology features high quality sociological scholarship in all its forms; dedicated to showcasing theory as well as applied sociology, quantitative and qualitative research. Based in the Southern Hemisphere and committed to intellectual works from the Asia-Pacific region, including Indigenous scholarship.
Australian Journal of Social Issues
Published by the Australian Social Policy Association to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for debate on significant and controversial social policy issues. It deals with questions of social justice as most broadly defined. Articles discuss particular social issues, review conceptual problems, present empirical studies and debate policy alternatives.
Health sociology review
Explores the contribution of sociology and sociological research methods to the understanding of health and illness; to health policy, promotion and practice; and to equity, social justice, social policy and social work. The journal of TASA Health Sociology section.