Soziale Welt (SozW)
Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung
About
Soziale Welt is one of the leading sociology journals published in German. It is characterised by its clear focus on empirical studies and publishes contributions that aim to describe, explain and understand social conditions, relations and changes using qualitative and quantitative data. This journal, which is steeped in tradition, aspires to provide the field of sociology with new impetus and actively shape its development by publishing programmatic contributions, such as those by renowned authors like Hans Albert, Ralf Dahrendorf, Karl-Dieter Opp, Renate Mayntz and Helmut Schelsky that it has published in the past.
Soziale Welt will appeal to academic institutes at universities; domestic and foreign research institutions; administration, economics and education academies; schools; libraries; ministries; administrative bodies, especially welfare and youth welfare offices, health authorities, employment authorities, church and charity organisations as well as civil society lobby groups.
Soziale Welt is included in the Social Sciences Citation Index and in Scopus.
ISSN Print 0038-6073
ISSN Online 2942-3414
Published quarterly
Editors
- Prof. Dr. Tobias Wolbring (V.i.S.d.P.)
Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany - Prof. Dr. Eva Barlösius
Institut für Soziologie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany - Prof. Dr. Monika Jungbauer-Gans
Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung GmbH (DZHW) und Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Germany - Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany - Prof. Dr. Malte Reichelt
Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany - Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve
Institut für Soziologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany - Prof. Dr. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Institut für Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Editorial Staff
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
Regensburger Straße 104
90478 Nürnberg
Germany
E-Mail: soziale-welt@nomos-journals.de
Manuscripts are welcome.
Online Appendix
Annual Tables of Contents
Special Editions
- 2022 – Sonderband 25 – Islam in Europa
- 2020 – Sonderband 24 – Soziologische Phantasie und kosmopolitisches Gemeinwesen
- 2020 – Sonderband 23 – Soziologie des Digitalen – Digitale Soziologie?
- 2015 – Sonderband 22 – Experimente in den Sozialwissenschaften
- 2014 – Sonderband 21 – Begriffe – Positionen – Debatten
- 2014 – Sonderband 20 – Sorge: Arbeit, Verhältnisse, Regime
- 2012 – Sonderband 19 – Zeit, Geld, Infrastruktur
- 2009 – Sonderband 18 – Demokratie in der Weltgesellschaft
- 2007 – Sonderband 17 – Konfliktfeld Islam in Europa
- 2005 – Sonderband 16 – Die Wirklichkeit der Städte
- 2004 – Sonderband 15 – Konfigurationen der Moderne
- 1998 – Sonderband 11 – Soziologie als Beruf
Manuscript Submission
Templates for Manuscript Submission
Publishing Open Access
Soziale Welt is not an open access journal. However, it is possible to publish individual articles in the journal open access by making the digital version freely available under a Creative Commons license chosen by the respective author(s). The publisher requires a fee to cover the publication costs (Article Processing Charge – APC) in the amount of 1,990.00 EUR (plus VAT). Many scientific institutions and science funding bodies provide corresponding funds for the publication of research results.
Are you interested in this option? Talk to your editorial office or contact open-access@nomos.de!
Review Process
Academics from the fields of sociology and the social sciences, predominantly from German-speaking countries, review articles submitted to the journal Soziale Welt. These reviewers are not only selected in terms of their content-related and methodological expertise but also their heterogeneity. The partiality of the editors and reviewers towards each submission is considered according to the guidelines stipulated by the German Research Foundation (DFG), and individuals who are biased towards any contribution will be excluded from the review process.
Abstracting & Indexing
- SSCI Impact Factor 2022: tbc (2021: tbc; 2020: 0.290; 2018: 0,095)
- Scopus Cite Score 2022: 1,2 (2021: 0,9; 2020: 0,5; 2019: 0,4; 2018: 0,24; 2017: 0,35)
- SCImago Journal Rank 2022: 0,388 (2021: 0,278; 2020: 0,171; 2019: 0,131; 2018: 0,154; 2017: 0,14)
- SNIP 2022: 1,002 (2021: 0,37; 2020: 0,13; 2019: 0,219 ;2018: 0,3; 2017: 0,276)
Soziale Welt regularly scores among the top 100 German scholarly journals in the Google Scholar ranking and is also included in
- Baidu Xue Shu
- ProQuest ExLibris Primo Index
- PubPsych
- SocINDEX (EBSCO)
- ANVUR Rating of Scientific Journals
- DZI SoLit
- World Affairs Online (WAO)
Soziale Welt is included in the following ProQuest databases