''Social Psychology Quarterly'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal that publishes theoretical and empirical papers in the field of social psychology. The editors-in-chief are Jody Clay-Warner, Dawn Robinson, and Justine Tinkler ( University of Georgia). It is published by

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on behalf of the

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, of which this is an official journal.

History

The journal was established in 1937 under the title ''Sociometry'' by

Jacob L. Moreno Jacob Levy Moreno (born Iacob Levy; May 18, 1889 – May 14, 1974) was a Romanian-American psychiatrist, psychosociologist, and educator, the founder of psychodrama, and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy. During his lifetime, he was r ...

, who served as publisher and chair of the editorial committee until 1955. In 1955, Moreno transferred ownership of the journal to the American Sociological Society (now the American Sociological Association), which has published the journal continuously since then. The journal's name was changed to ''Social Psychology'' in 1978 and it obtained its current name in 1979.

Abstracting and indexing

''Social Psychology Quarterly'' is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the

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. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', its 2017 impact factor is 2.341, ranking it 18th out of 64 journals in the category "Psychology, Social".

Past Editors

The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:

References

External links

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