AMERICAN SOCIOLOGISTS' EVALUATIONS OF SIXTY-THREE JOURNALS.

The article presents evaluation of sixty-three journals of sociology by Sociologists in the United States. In February 1970 a questionnaire was mailed to a randomly drawn sample of 250 professors and associate professors in departments with sociology Ph.D. programs listed in the "Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology, 1969." The letter that accompanied the questionnaire explained that the instrument was designed to gather data to be used to construct an index of the productivity of sociologists. If the purpose of the study had been merely to arrive at a prestige ranking of the journals, a simple rating scale could have been used, and it would not have been necessary to use the average importance of any kind of publication as a unit of measurement. Although there was less dissensus on the general journals than on the specialized and interdisciplinary ones or on journals in other disciplines, there was nevertheless a great deal of disagreement even about the best-known general journals.