Youth & Society

Youth & Society  
Language English
Edited by Marc Zimmerman
Publication details
Publisher SAGE Publications
Publication history 1969-present
Frequency Quarterly
Impact factor
(2010)		 1.058
Indexing
ISSN 0044-118X
LCCN 73011617
OCLC number 8797084
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Youth & Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Sociology. The journal's editor is Marc Zimmerman (University of Michigan). It has been in publication since 1969 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

Contents

Scope

Youth & Society focuses on issues related to the second decade of life. The interdisciplinary journal covers transitional issues from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood as well as the social, contextual, and political factors that influence both healthy and harmful adolescent development.

Abstracting and indexing

Youth & Society is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 1.058, ranking it 37 out of 132 journals in the category ‘Sociology’.[1] and 21 out of 84 journals in the category ‘Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary’. [2] and 11 out of 35 journals in the category ‘Social Issues’. [3]

References

  1. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology". 2010 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2011. 
  2. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary". 2010 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2011. 
  3. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Social Issues". 2010 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2011. 

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