This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Social Sciences journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Review of Economics and Statistics | MIT Press Journals | 00346535, 15309142 | 8.371 |
| 2 | Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior | Annual Reviews Inc. | 23270608 | 7.036 |
| 3 | Nature Climate Change | Nature Publishing Group | 17586798, 1758678X | 6.849 |
| 4 | Lancet Digital Health, The | Elsevier Ltd. | 25897500 | 6.433 |
| 5 | Molecular Systems Biology | Wiley-Blackwell | 17444292 | 6.22 |
| 6 | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 07350015, 15372707 | 6.15 |
| 7 | Nature Geoscience | Nature Publishing Group | 17520908, 17520894 | 6.11 |
| 8 | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Annual Reviews Inc. | 846597 | 6.083 |
| 9 | Personality and Social Psychology Review | SAGE Publications Inc. | 10888683, 15327957 | 5.709 |
| 10 | Nature Human Behaviour | Nature Publishing Group | 23973374 | 5.639 |
| 11 | Studies in Mycology | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute | 1660616 | 5.202 |
| 12 | International Journal of Information Management | Elsevier Ltd. | 2684012 | 4.906 |
| 13 | Organizational Research Methods | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15527425, 10944281 | 4.626 |
| 14 | Biological Reviews | Wiley-Blackwell | 1469185X, 14647931 | 4.388 |
| 15 | Radiocarbon | Cambridge University Press | 338222 | 4.271 |
| 16 | Earth System Science Data | Copernicus Publications | 18663516, 18663508 | 4.24 |
| 17 | Remote Sensing of Environment | Elsevier Inc. | 344257 | 4.057 |
| 18 | Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 21596778, 2159676X | 4.045 |
| 19 | PLoS Biology | Public Library of Science | 15449173, 15457885 | 4.005 |
| 20 | Earth-Science Reviews | Elsevier | 128252 | 3.807 |
| 21 | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | American Psychological Association | 223514 | 3.799 |
| 22 | Lancet Healthy Longevity, The | Elsevier Ltd. | 26667568 | 3.619 |
| 23 | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | Wiley-Blackwell | 19422466 | 3.605 |
| 24 | Lancet Planetary Health, The | Elsevier BV | 25425196 | 3.586 |
| 25 | Biometrika | Oxford University Press | 14643510, 00063444 | 3.566 |
| 26 | Human Relations | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00187267, 1741282X | 3.508 |
| 27 | ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Elsevier | 9242716 | 3.308 |
| 28 | Information Systems Research | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 15265536, 10477047 | 3.257 |
| 29 | Communications in Transportation Research | Tsinghua University Press | 27724247 | 3.188 |
| 30 | Structural Equation Modeling | Psychology Press Ltd | 15328007, 10705511 | 3.014 |
| 31 | MMWR Recommendations and Reports | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 10575987, 15458601 | 23.962 |
| 32 | Organizational Psychology Review | SAGE Publications Inc. | 20413866, 20413874 | 2.97 |
| 33 | Business and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00076503, 15524205 | 2.965 |
| 34 | European Journal of Personality | SAGE Publications Ltd | 08902070, 10990984 | 2.868 |
| 35 | International Journal of Management Reviews | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14608545, 14682370 | 2.857 |
| 36 | Current Biology | Cell Press | 18790445, 09609822 | 2.806 |
| 37 | European Review of Social Psychology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10463283, 1479277X | 2.806 |
| 38 | Sociological Science | Society for Sociological Science | 23306696 | 2.766 |
| 39 | International Journal of Operations and Production Management | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 17586593, 01443577 | 2.618 |
| 40 | One Earth | Cell Press | 25903330, 25903322 | 2.617 |
| 41 | Political Psychology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 0162895X, 14679221 | 2.61 |
| 42 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine | IEEE Geosciene and Remote Sensing Society | 21686831 | 2.539 |
| 43 | Earth's Future | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 23284277 | 2.51 |
| 44 | Journal of Applied Econometrics | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10991255, 08837252 | 2.495 |
| 45 | Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 214027 | 2.494 |
| 46 | European Journal of Information Systems | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 0960085X, 14769344 | 2.481 |
| 47 | International Journal of Information Management Data Insights | Elsevier BV | 26670968 | 2.479 |
| 48 | Communications Earth and Environment | Springer Nature | 26624435 | 2.457 |
| 49 | Postdigital Science and Education | Springer International Publishing AG | 2524485X, 25244868 | 2.453 |
| 50 | Trauma, Violence, and Abuse | SAGE Publications Ltd | 15248380, 15528324 | 2.422 |
| 51 | BioScience | Oxford University Press | 15253244, 00063568 | 2.42 |
| 52 | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions | Elsevier BV | 22104224 | 2.418 |
| 53 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | Elsevier BV | 0012821X | 2.416 |
| 54 | Scientific data | Nature Publishing Group | 20524463 | 2.41 |
| 55 | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | American Sociological Association | 00221465, 21506000 | 2.409 |
| 56 | Social Psychological and Personality Science | Sage Periodicals Press | 19485514, 19485506 | 2.404 |
| 57 | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15580644, 01962892 | 2.4 |
| 58 | Big Data and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 20539517 | 2.389 |
| 59 | Journal of Marriage and Family | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17413737, 00222445 | 2.386 |
| 60 | Tobacco Control | BMJ Publishing Group | 09644563, 14683318 | 2.331 |
| 61 | BMC Biology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 17417007 | 2.324 |
| 62 | Government Information Quarterly | Elsevier Ltd. | 0740624X | 2.321 |
| 63 | Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences | Gerontological Society of America | 10795014, 17585368 | 2.311 |
| 64 | Earth System Dynamics | Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH | 21904979, 21904987 | 2.298 |
| 65 | American Journal of Science | Yale University | 29599 | 2.283 |
| 66 | Sociological Methods and Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00491241, 15528294 | 2.252 |
| 67 | Communications Biology | Springer Nature | 23993642 | 2.251 |
| 68 | Social Issues and Policy Review | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17512409, 17512395 | 2.245 |
| 69 | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | SAGE Publications Inc. | 01461672, 15527433 | 2.238 |
| 70 | Geoscientific Model Development | Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH | 1991959X, 19919603 | 2.225 |
| 71 | Journal of Personality | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00223506, 14676494 | 2.192 |
| 72 | Energy Research and Social Science | Elsevier Ltd. | 22146296 | 2.171 |
| 73 | Child Development | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14678624, 00093920 | 2.135 |
| 74 | Public Opinion Quarterly | Oxford University Press | 0033362X, 15375331 | 2.129 |
| 75 | Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 25781863 | 2.126 |
| 76 | British Journal of Social Psychology | Wiley-Blackwell | 01446665, 20448309 | 2.117 |
| 77 | Emotion Review | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17540747, 17540739 | 2.113 |
| 78 | Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy | American Psychological Association | 1942969X, 19429681 | 2.109 |
| 79 | Information Processing and Management | Elsevier Ltd. | 18735371, 03064573 | 2.106 |
| 80 | RSF | Russell Sage Foundation | 23778253, 23778261 | 2.101 |
| 81 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | Elsevier | 18773435 | 2.1 |
| 82 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | The Royal Society | 09628436, 14712970 | 2.084 |
| 83 | Journal of Urban Health | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 10993460, 14682869 | 2.076 |
| 84 | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 14678276, 00029092 | 2.075 |
| 85 | Acta Geotechnica | Springer Verlag | 18611125, 18611133 | 2.067 |
| 86 | Quarterly Review of Biology | University of Chicago | 15397718, 00335770 | 2.063 |
| 87 | Journal of Environmental Psychology | Academic Press Inc. | 02724944, 15229610 | 2.045 |
| 88 | Geotechnique | ICE Publishing | 17517656, 00168505 | 2.042 |
| 89 | Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Springer New York | 15736601, 00472891 | 2.03 |
| 90 | Research on Language and Social Interaction | Routledge | 08351813, 15327973 | 2.013 |
| 91 | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | Department of Health and Human Services | 01492195, 1545861X | 16.786 |
| 92 | MMWR Surveillance Summaries | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 15458636, 15460738 | 15.178 |
| 93 | Information and Organization | Elsevier Ltd. | 14717727 | 1.997 |
| 94 | Sociological Methodology | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14679531, 00811750 | 1.996 |
| 95 | Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 21699100, 21699097 | 1.989 |
| 96 | Social Science and Medicine | Elsevier Ltd. | 18735347, 02779536 | 1.978 |
| 97 | Ecosystem Services | Elsevier BV | 22120416 | 1.956 |
| 98 | Global Transitions | KeAi Communications Co. | 25897918 | 1.953 |
| 99 | Geoscience Frontiers | China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Peking University | 16749871 | 1.93 |
| 100 | Asian Journal of Social Health and Behavior | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications | 27724204 | 1.9 |
| 101 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | The Royal Society | 9628452 | 1.898 |
| 102 | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 00189448, 15579654 | 1.87 |
| 103 | Physics of Life Reviews | Elsevier | 18731457, 15710645 | 1.848 |
| 104 | Journal of Industrial Ecology | Wiley-Blackwell | 10881980, 15309290 | 1.843 |
| 105 | Geophysical Research Letters | Wiley-Blackwell | 948276 | 1.837 |
| 106 | Mathematical Finance | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 09601627, 14679965 | 1.837 |
| 107 | Information Communication and Society | Routledge | 1369118X | 1.807 |
| 108 | Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 2169897X, 21698996 | 1.798 |
| 109 | Database : the journal of biological databases and curation | Oxford University Press | 17580463 | 1.786 |
| 110 | SSM - Population Health | Elsevier Ltd. | 23528273 | 1.785 |