Social Networks (journal)

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{{hatnote|Not to be confused with Social Networking (journal), published by Scientific Research Publishing.}}

{{Infobox journal

| title = Social Networks

| cover =

| editor = Ulrik Brandes, Tom Valente

| discipline = Sociology, Social network theory

| former_names =

| abbreviation = Soc. Netw.

| publisher = Elsevier for the International Network for Social Network Analysis

| country =

| frequency = Quarterly

| history = 1979–present

| openaccess =

| license =

| impact = 3.1

| impact-year = 2022

| website = http://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-networks

| link1 = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03788733

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 =

| link2-name =

| ISSN = 0378-8733

| eISSN =

| OCLC = 473324852

| LCCN = 82643204

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Social Networks is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on social network theory. The editors-in-chief are Thomas Valente (University of Southern California) and Ulrik Brandes (ETH Zurich). 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 was 2.931, ranking it 6th out of 137 journals in the category "Sociology".{{cite book |year=2011 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology |title=2011 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Thomson Reuters |edition=Social Sciences |work=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}

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