Social Networks (journal)


Social Networks is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on social network theory. The editors-in-chief are Thomas Valente and Martin Everett. It was established in 1979 and is currently published by Elsevier.

Abstracting and indexing

Social Networks is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2011 impact factor is 2.931, ranking it 6th out of 137 journals in the category "Sociology".