Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research

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Mobilization is an academic journal that publishes original research and academic reviews of books concerned mainly with sociological research on protests, social movements, and collective behavior.

The journal was first published in 1996, by editor and publisher Hank Johnston, a sociology professor at San Diego State University. Johnston edited the journal for eleven years after which he was succeeded by Daniel J. Myers of the University of Notre Dame. During Johnston’s run as editor, the journal moved from two issues per year, to three issues, and starting with volume eleven, became a quarterly journal. In a relatively short period of time, the journal became the leading academic journal specializing in social movements research in both the North American and Europe and has maintained an international scope of coverage and distribution.

Mobilization is the leading journal on the study of social movements as indicated in a study published in 2002 in the Critical Mass Bulletin, a newsletter of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements. In this study, Mobilization was found to be the eighth most cited journal in all of the sociological literature and most cited sociology journal excluding general interest sociology journals.

ISSN 1086-671X