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American Sociological Review Template

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About the American Sociological Review format

American Sociological Review is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics. Over its lifetime it has published 13,272 papers, which have received 1,555,751 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', American Sociological Review, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inUrban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Social and Cultural Dynamics Crime Patterns and Interventions
ISSN0003-1224
Citation impact (2-yr)5.53
h-index524
i10-index7,498
Top institutions publishing hereHarvard University Press
Journal websiteus.sagepub.com
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Papers published in American Sociological Review per year

55
2014
55
2015
48
2016
51
2017
44
2018
43
2019
51
2020
43
2021
40
2022
41
2023
39
2024
41
2025

Citation impact of American Sociological Review by publication year

8.1K
2014
7.2K
2015
6.4K
2016
6.6K
2017
4.9K
2018
8.1K
2019
3.9K
2020
2.3K
2021
1.2K
2022
998
2023
410
2024
128
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in American Sociological Review

The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell · 1 Apr 1983

Instead of examining why organizations are dissimilar, this study explores why organizations tend to be increasingly and inevitably homogenous in their forms and practices. Organizations in a similar line of work are structured into an organizational field by powerful forces that lead them to become similar. Rather than the causes of rationalization and bureaucratization suggested…

36,413 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.

Kaspar D. Naegele, Erving Goffman · 1 Oct 1956

hen an individual enters the presence of oth ers, they commonly seek to acquire information about him or to bring into play information about him already possessed. They will be interested in his general socio-economic status, his concep tion of self, his attitude toward them, his compe tence, his trustworthiness, etc. Although some of this…

26,163 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge.

George L. Simpson, Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann · 1 Feb 1967

A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations. This book is concerned with the sociology of 'everything that passes for knowledge in society'. It focuses particularly on that 'common-sense knowledge' which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of…

16,596 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Exchange and Power in Social Life.

Robert Bierstedt, Peter M. Blau · 1 Oct 1965

In his landmark study of exchange and power in social life, Peter M. Blau contributes to an understanding of social structure by analyzing the social processes that govern the relations between individuals and groups. The basic question that Blau considers is: How does social life become organized into increasingly complex structures of associations among humans.…

13,821 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Studies in Ethnomethodology.

Anthony F. C. Wallace, Harold Garfinkel · 1 Feb 1968

1. What is Ethnomethodology?. 2. Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities. 3. Common Sense Knowledge of Social Structures: The Documentary Method of Interpretation in Lay and Professional Fact Finding. 4. Some Rules of Correct Decisions that Jurors Respect. 5. Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in the Intersexed Person. 6. Good…

12,556 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

American Sociological Review template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the American Sociological Review format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the American Sociological Review template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does American Sociological Review use?
American Sociological Review uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', American Sociological Review, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to American Sociological Review?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready American Sociological Review document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the American Sociological Review template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the American Sociological Review format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
What is American Sociological Review?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
Can I export a submission-ready American Sociological Review PDF?
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