Finding Peer-Reviewed Research Articles (Empirical Studies) in Sociology Journals

   
Use OneSearch if you have a topic.
  

No topic? If you don't have a topic,
browse some of the peer-reviewed high impact Sociology journals found on the first page of this guide.
   
    

Once you generate a list of articles from "Peer-reviewed Journals"
   

1. Check to be sure your article comes from a Sociology journal - i.e., check to see if the name of the journal can be found in the list of Sociology journals found in this guide (a list of highly-regarded Sociology journals generated by Journal Citation Reports).
   
   You will find the name of the journal in front of the publication year, volume number, and page numbers in a OneSearch result (a result that has the heading "ARTICLE").
   
   In the following example the name of the journal is Gender & Society which appears just before the information 2021, Vol. 35 
   
   
      
      
    
2. If the journal is a Sociology journal then open the article to see if it is a study. In most cases a study (research article) will contain a Results section and a Discussion section.
         
       
    

The plus and minus of using OneSearch to locate peer-reviewed studies.

• PLUS:      Access to recently published Sociology studies.
   
• PLUS:      Limit to peer-reviewed journals.
   
• PLUS:      Focus your search using either the Title or Subject options.
   
• PLUS:      Searches more Sociology journals than JSTOR, but ... 
   
• MINUS:    Must check to see if the article comes from a Sociology journal (and not a journal from a different discipline - e.g., political science). Check on the List of Sociology Journals option in this guide (list generated by Journal Citation Reports).
   
• MINUS:    Must review the article to be sure it is a “study” (i.e., research or empirical study). Note - many quantitative studies will have sections labeled. Method/Methods/Methodology  and  Results  and  Discussion - however, many qualitative studies may use different terminology.