American Sociological Review

The American Sociological Review is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology. It is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association. It was established in 1936. It is along with American Journal of Sociology considered one of the top journals in sociology.

The editors-in-chief are David Cort (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Laurel Smith-Doerr (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Founding
For its first thirty years, the American Sociological Society (now the American Sociological Association) was largely dominated by the sociology department of the University of Chicago, and the quasi-official journal of the association was Chicago's American Journal of Sociology. The creation of the American Sociological Review has been seen as a rebellion against the dominance of the Chicago School in sociology.

In 1935, the executive committee of the American Sociological Society voted 5 to 4 against disestablishing the American Journal of Sociology as the official journal of society, but the measure was passed on for consideration of the general membership, which voted 2 to 1 to establish a new journal independent of Chicago: the American Sociological Review.

Early history
Over the period 1948–1968, more than 60% editors of the ASR earned their doctorate at University of Chicago, Harvard University or Columbia University. Over the period 1955–1965, four out of ten articles in the ASR were by individuals with doctorates from Chicago, Columbia, Harvard or the University of Michigan.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Academic Search Premier

• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences

• Current Index to Statistics

• FRANCIS

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

• ProQuest databases

• PsycINFO

• Scopus

• Social Sciences Citation Index

• Sociological Abstracts According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor is 9.1, ranking it 3rd out of 149 journals in the category "Sociology".

Past editors
The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

• F.H. Hankin (Smith College (1936–1937)

• Read Bain (Miami University (1938–1942)

• Joseph K. Folsom (Vassar College (1943–1944)

• F. Stuart Chapin and George B. Vold (University of Minnesota (1945–1946)

• Robert C. Angell (University of Michigan (1947–1948)

• Maurice R. Davie (Yale University (1949–1951)

• Robert E.L. Faris (University of Washington (1952–1955)

• Leonard Broom (University of California, Los Angeles (1956–1957)

• Charles Page (Smith College (1958–1960)

• Harry Alpert (University of Oregon (1961–1962)

• Neil J. Smelser (University of California, Berkeley (1963–1965)

• Norman Ryder (University of Wisconsin (1966–1968)

• Karl F. Schuessler (Indiana University (1969–1971)

• James F. Short Jr. (Washington State University (1972–1974)

• Morris Zelditch (Stanford University (1975–1977)

• Rita J. Simon (University of Illinois, Urbana (1978–1980)

• William Form (University of Illinois, Urbana (1981)

• Sheldon Stryker (Indiana University (1982–1986)

• William Form (Ohio State University (1987–1989)

• Gerald Marwell (University of Wisconsin (1990–1993)

• Paula England (University of Arizona (1994–1996)

• Glenn Firebaugh (Pennsylvania State University (1997–2000)

• Charles Camic and Franklin Wilson (University of Wisconsin (2000–2003)

• Jerry Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania (2003–2006)

• Randy Hodson and Vincent Roscigno (Ohio State University (2006–2009)

• Tony Brown, Katharine M. Donato, Larry W. Isaac, and Holly J. McCammon, Vanderbilt University (2010-2012)

• Larry W. Isaac and Holly J. McCammon, Vanderbilt University (2013-2015)

• Omar Lizardo, Rory M. McVeigh, and Sarah Mustillo, University of Notre Dame (2016-2020)

• Arthur S. Alderson and Dina G. Okamoto, Indiana University-Bloomington (2021–2023)