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. These journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior | Annual Reviews Inc. | 23270608 | 8.656 |
| 2 | Review of Economics and Statistics | MIT Press Journals | 00346535, 15309142 | 8.245 |
| 3 | Personality and Social Psychology Review | SAGE Publications Inc. | 10888683, 15327957 | 7.66 |
| 4 | Molecular Systems Biology | Wiley-Blackwell | 17444292 | 6.523 |
| 5 | Nature Climate Change | Nature Publishing Group | 17586798, 1758678X | 6.134 |
| 6 | Lancet Digital Health, The | Elsevier Ltd. | 25897500 | 6.024 |
| 7 | Nature Geoscience | Nature Publishing Group | 17520908, 17520894 | 5.364 |
| 8 | Studies in Mycology | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute | 1660616 | 5.257 |
| 9 | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 07350015, 15372707 | 5.241 |
| 10 | Nature Human Behaviour | Nature Publishing Group | 23973374 | 5.205 |
| 11 | Organizational Research Methods | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15527425, 10944281 | 5.195 |
| 12 | International Journal of Information Management | Elsevier Ltd. | 2684012 | 4.584 |
| 13 | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Annual Reviews Inc. | 846597 | 4.535 |
| 14 | Lancet Healthy Longevity, The | Elsevier Ltd. | 26667568 | 4.366 |
| 15 | Biological Reviews | Wiley-Blackwell | 1469185X, 14647931 | 4.357 |
| 16 | PLoS Biology | Public Library of Science | 15449173, 15457885 | 3.928 |
| 17 | Research in Organizational Behavior | Elsevier Ltd. | 1913085 | 3.871 |
| 18 | Remote Sensing of Environment | Elsevier Inc. | 344257 | 3.862 |
| 19 | International Journal of Management Reviews | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14608545, 14682370 | 3.851 |
| 20 | Information Systems Research | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 15265536, 10477047 | 3.816 |
| 21 | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | American Psychological Association | 223514 | 3.697 |
| 22 | Earth System Science Data | Copernicus Publications | 18663516, 18663508 | 3.657 |
| 23 | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | Wiley-Blackwell | 19422466 | 3.633 |
| 24 | Information and Organization | Elsevier Ltd. | 14717727 | 3.623 |
| 25 | Earth-Science Reviews | Elsevier | 128252 | 3.61 |
| 26 | ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Elsevier | 9242716 | 3.481 |
| 27 | Lancet Planetary Health, The | Elsevier BV | 25425196 | 3.389 |
| 28 | Structural Equation Modeling | Psychology Press Ltd | 15328007, 10705511 | 3.302 |
| 29 | Radiocarbon | Cambridge University Press | 338222 | 3.199 |
| 30 | Biometrika | Oxford University Press | 14643510, 00063444 | 3.172 |
| 31 | Sociological Science | Society for Sociological Science | 23306696 | 3.068 |
| 32 | MMWR Recommendations and Reports | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 10575987, 15458601 | 25.045 |
| 33 | Journal of Applied Econometrics | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10991255, 08837252 | 2.936 |
| 34 | Research on Language and Social Interaction | Routledge | 08351813, 15327973 | 2.909 |
| 35 | Current Biology | Cell Press | 18790445, 09609822 | 2.905 |
| 36 | Human Relations | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00187267, 1741282X | 2.901 |
| 37 | Business and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00076503, 15524205 | 2.717 |
| 38 | BMC Biology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 17417007 | 2.673 |
| 39 | American Journal of Science | Yale University | 29599 | 2.649 |
| 40 | Earth's Future | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 23284277 | 2.624 |
| 41 | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions | Elsevier BV | 22104224 | 2.573 |
| 42 | Energy Research and Social Science | Elsevier Ltd. | 22146296 | 2.551 |
| 43 | Geoscientific Model Development | Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH | 1991959X, 19919603 | 2.529 |
| 44 | Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture | KeAi Communications Co. | 25897217 | 2.471 |
| 45 | Scientific data | Nature Publishing Group | 20524463 | 2.468 |
| 46 | Social Issues and Policy Review | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17512409, 17512395 | 2.447 |
| 47 | Government Information Quarterly | Elsevier Ltd. | 0740624X | 2.439 |
| 48 | European Review of Social Psychology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10463283, 1479277X | 2.411 |
| 49 | European Journal of Personality | SAGE Publications Ltd | 08902070, 10990984 | 2.408 |
| 50 | Trauma, Violence, and Abuse | SAGE Publications Ltd | 15248380, 15528324 | 2.407 |
| 51 | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15580644, 01962892 | 2.404 |
| 52 | Public Opinion Quarterly | Oxford University Press | 0033362X, 15375331 | 2.389 |
| 53 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | Elsevier BV | 0012821X | 2.348 |
| 54 | Geotechnique | ICE Publishing | 17517656, 00168505 | 2.344 |
| 55 | Political Psychology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 0162895X, 14679221 | 2.332 |
| 56 | International Journal of Operations and Production Management | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 17586593, 01443577 | 2.291 |
| 57 | Social Psychological and Personality Science | Sage Periodicals Press | 19485514, 19485506 | 2.288 |
| 58 | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | SAGE Publications Inc. | 01461672, 15527433 | 2.273 |
| 59 | BioScience | Oxford University Press | 15253244, 00063568 | 2.26 |
| 60 | Communications Biology | Springer Nature | 23993642 | 2.256 |
| 61 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine | IEEE Geosciene and Remote Sensing Society | 21686831 | 2.231 |
| 62 | Journal of Information Technology | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | 14664437, 02683962 | 2.229 |
| 63 | Journal of Marriage and Family | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17413737, 00222445 | 2.224 |
| 64 | European Journal of Information Systems | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 0960085X, 14769344 | 2.201 |
| 65 | Child Development | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14678624, 00093920 | 2.179 |
| 66 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | The Royal Society | 09628436, 14712970 | 2.151 |
| 67 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | Elsevier | 18773435 | 2.097 |
| 68 | Tobacco Control | BMJ Publishing Group | 09644563, 14683318 | 2.074 |
| 69 | Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 21596778, 2159676X | 2.06 |
| 70 | Econometric Theory | Cambridge University Press | 02664666, 14694360 | 2.043 |
| 71 | Big Data and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 20539517 | 2.04 |
| 72 | Organizational Psychology Review | SAGE Publications Inc. | 20413866, 20413874 | 2.014 |
| 73 | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | Department of Health and Human Services | 01492195, 1545861X | 16.513 |
| 74 | MMWR Surveillance Summaries | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 15458636, 15460738 | 10.129 |
| 75 | Physics of Life Reviews | Elsevier | 18731457, 15710645 | 1.992 |
| 76 | British Journal of Social Psychology | Wiley-Blackwell | 01446665, 20448309 | 1.991 |
| 77 | Sociological Methodology | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14679531, 00811750 | 1.988 |
| 78 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | The Royal Society | 9628452 | 1.987 |
| 79 | Information Communication and Society | Routledge | 1369118X | 1.968 |
| 80 | Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy | American Psychological Association | 1942969X, 19429681 | 1.963 |
| 81 | Acta Geotechnica | Springer Verlag | 18611125, 18611133 | 1.956 |
| 82 | Sociological Methods and Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00491241, 15528294 | 1.927 |
| 83 | Journal of Personality | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00223506, 14676494 | 1.921 |
| 84 | Emotion Review | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17540739 | 1.908 |
| 85 | Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10969845, 00988847 | 1.884 |
| 86 | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 14678276, 00029092 | 1.861 |
| 87 | Geophysical Research Letters | Wiley-Blackwell | 948276 | 1.857 |
| 88 | Information Processing and Management | Elsevier Ltd. | 18735371, 03064573 | 1.854 |
| 89 | Decision Making: Applications in Management and Engineering | 26200104, 25606018 | 1.852 | |
| 90 | International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation | Elsevier | 15698432 | 1.844 |
| 91 | One Earth | Cell Press | 25903330, 25903322 | 1.829 |
| 92 | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | Academic Press Inc. | 00221031, 10960465 | 1.825 |
| 93 | Earth System Dynamics | Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH | 21904979, 21904987 | 1.815 |
| 94 | Journal of Environmental Psychology | Academic Press Inc. | 02724944, 15229610 | 1.81 |
| 95 | Social Science and Medicine | Elsevier Ltd. | 18735347, 02779536 | 1.806 |
| 96 | Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 2169897X, 21698996 | 1.796 |
| 97 | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | European Geosciences Union | 10275606, 16077938 | 1.783 |
| 98 | Geoscience Frontiers | China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Peking University | 16749871 | 1.78 |
| 99 | Sustainability Science | Springer Japan | 18624065, 18624057 | 1.775 |
| 100 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth | Wiley-Blackwell | 21699356, 21699313 | 1.773 |