Journal Sociológia - Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Basic information

Sociológia (SK ISSN 0049 - 1225, electronic version ISSN 1336-8613) is published bimonthly by the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The journal has been published without interruption since 1969. Since 1997, there have been six issues annually either in Slovak or in English.

Contents, abstracts and full texts are available on the SAS web page.

Editor-in-chief: Jozef Zagrapan
Editors: Katarína Moravanská a Petr Mezihorák

Editorial assistant: Milan Zeman

Impact Factor: 0.4
Source: 2024 Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate Analytics, 2025)

Editorial Board

Dilbar Alieva, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Miloslav Bahna, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Monika Čambáliková, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Roman Džambazovič, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; Andrej Findor, Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; Daniel Gerbery, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; Oľga Gyárfášová, Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; Karen Henderson, Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; Ivan Chorvát, Department of Social Studies and Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia; Tomáš Katrňák, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Robert Klobucký, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Tomáš Kostelecký, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic; Luca Kristóf, Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary; Karin Liebhart, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria; Jana Lindbloom, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Ľudmila Malíková, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy and Art, Trnava University, Trnava, Slovakia; Silvia Miháliková, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Katarína Moravanská, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Annalisa Murgia, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy; Andrew Penner, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA; Heiko Pleines, East European Studies, University of Bremen, Germany; Marek Skovajsa, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; Jana Strussová, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Peter Spáč, Department of Political Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Claire Wallace, School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom; Jozef Zagrapan, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Jan Zielonka, European Studies Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Aims and mission

Sociológia publishes original peer-reviewed articles covering a wide area of sociological thought and research. It provides a space for debates about current social issues in Slovak, European and world society.

The journal is indexed in:

Central and Eastern European Online Library (C.E.E.O.L)
Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (CSA / ProQuest)
Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
Scopus (Elsevier)
Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Social Services Abstracts (CSA / ProQuest)
SocINDEX (EBSCO)
Sociological Abstracts (CSA / ProQuest)
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA / ProQuest)
and other databases

Information for authors

Manuscript submission
The journal welcomes contributions in Slovak, English or Czech. Papers have to be submitted in electronic form only in MS Word or Open Office format. Name, academic affiliations, contact details and references in the paper that could lead to the identification of the author have to be provided on a separate sheet. Please e-mail your submissions to socuedit@savba.sk. Submitted manuscripts must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Manuscript preparation
The standard length of articles is 6000 to 9000 ‬words (‬ including, ‬ abstract, ‬ text, ‬ appendices, ‬ footnotes and
references) ‬and ‬750 ‬to ‬2500 ‬words for reviews. Submitted articles have to be accompanied by a ‬200 ‬word English language abstract, ‬English title, ‬key words, ‬reference list and short biographical information for every author.

Citations in the text
When the author’s name is in the text, follow it with the year in parentheses ... Putnam (2000). Two authors: … Berger and Luckman (1966).
When the author’s name is not in the text, enclose the last name and year in parentheses ... (Beck 1986).
Pages cited follow the year of publication ... (Habermas 2012: 90–91)
Provide the last names for two authors, separated by a hyphen ... (Berger – Luckman 1966).
For three authors, list all three last names, separated by a hyphen, as in the case of two authors. For works with four or more authors, use 'et al.' throughout.
List a series of citations in date order separated by semicolons ... (Beck 1986; Putnam 2000).
Use 'forthcoming' to cite sources scheduled for publication.
When citing institutional authors and the name of a specific author is not known, include essential identification details from the full citation … (Statistical Office of the SR 2024).
The citation should be placed directly before the period at the end of the sentence.

Reference style
Arrange the references alphabetically based on the authors’ last names. If there are multiple entries by the same author(s), organize them by the publication year. In cases where several works by the same author(s) are published in the same year, list them alphabetically by title and label them as 'a,' 'b,' 'c,' etc. If a cited work is not yet published but has been accepted for publication, indicate this by using 'Forthcoming' instead of the date and provide the name of the journal (or publisher for books). Using 'et al.' in the reference list is not acceptable; please list all authors.
Provide DOI whenever possible.

The reference list should be prepared according to the journal standards in alphabetical order at the end of the paper. Some examples of the preferred references style:

DŽAMBAZOVIČ, R. – GERBERY, D., 2018: Medzigeneračná sociálna mobilita na Slovensku. Sociológia 50(4): 396-428. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2018.50.4.16
BÚZIK, B., 2000: Zjavenie sa modernizácie v slovenskej sociológii. Sociológia 32(4): 385-390.
KLOBUCKÝ, R. − MRVA, M., 2019: Vývoj spoločenskej dôvery. In: Rabušic, L., Kusá, Z., Manea, Ch. B., Strapcová, K. (eds.): Odděleně spolu? Česko a Slovensko optikou vývoje hodnot po roce 1991. Bratislava: Slovart.
LAIFEROVÁ, E. – MISTRÍKOVÁ, Ľ. – CAPÍKOVÁ, S. – LUBELCOVÁ, G. – ECKEROVÁ, L., 2018: Slovenská sociológia po páde komunizmu. Ideové korene, súčasné trendy a osobnosti vedy. 2. upravené a rozšírené vydanie. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského. 276 s. ISBN 978-80-223-4271-1.

In the Slovak language, page ranges are indicated by the abbreviation “s.”, while in English the abbreviation “pp.” is used.

Peer review policy
All papers are initially scrutinized by the editor. Those which meet the scientific and editorial standards of the journal are subject of a double-blind peer-review. ‬The final decision about the publication of a submitted article is approved by the editors, possibly by the editorial board. ‬The journal reserves the right to make published contributions ‬available in electronic or another form.

Special issues policy
Articles in special issues are subject to the same editorial oversight as regular papers, including external peer review, and are clearly labelled as special issue content.
The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the content of special issues and oversees the work of the guest editors.
Editors ensure that guest editors’ credentials are verified and approved.
Manuscripts submitted to a special issue by guest editors are handled through an independent review process and may not constitute more than 25% of the total content of the issue.

Information for subscribers

The print version of the journal is available by subscription.
The annual subscription fee (without delivery costs) is 30,- Euro. The price of a single issue is 5.- Euro.

The journal is published by the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The print version of the journal is available also in the VEDA bookstore on Štefánikova street no. 3 in Bratislava. Sociológia is also available in electronic format on the SAS webpage and in the CEEOL database.

The journal is distributed by:
Slovak Academic Press, spol. s r. o.
P.O.BOX 57
810 05 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
E-mail: sap@sappress.sk

Open-access statement, licensing, and copyright

Open-access statement
Sociológia is a diamond open-access journal. All articles are freely available online immediately upon publication.
The journal does not charge any fees to authors for submission, peer review, or publication.
All published articles receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Readers may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

Licensing terms
Content published in Sociológia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
This license allows users to share (copy and redistribute) and adapt (remix, transform, build upon) the material for non-commercial purposes, provided that proper attribution is given and any changes are indicated.
If an article includes third-party material not covered by this license, this is clearly indicated in the article and may require separate permission from the rights holder.

Copyright
Authors retain copyright to their work.
By publishing in Sociológia, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish their article and to identify itself as the original publisher.
Authors may deposit the final published version (Version of Record) in their preferred repositories immediately upon publication, provided that the full citation and link to the journal website are included.
Third parties may reuse the published material under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Ethical publishing principles

The journal Sociológia adheres to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing and follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): publicationethics.org
The journal’s ethical standards are also aligned with the Code of Ethics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Editors, reviewers, and authors are required to uphold the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and professional conduct throughout the entire publication process.

Authors’ responsibilities
Authors must ensure that their work is original and has not been published elsewhere, in whole or in part. Plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, and duplicate publication are unethical and unacceptable.
Authorship should reflect a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study. All co-authors must approve the final version of the manuscript prior to submission.
Authors are required to properly cite all sources used, disclose any potential conflicts of interest, and acknowledge all sources of funding.
If authors discover a significant error after publication, they must immediately inform the editorial office so that a correction or retraction can be issued.
The journal does not provide proofreading or language-editing services; authors are responsible for the linguistic quality of their manuscript and must submit text written in clear and grammatically correct Slovak, Czech, or English.

Editors’ responsibilities
Editors evaluate manuscripts solely on their scholarly merit, regardless of the authors' gender, nationality, institutional affiliation, or other characteristics. They ensure confidentiality, objective and impartial peer review, and make decisions based on scientific quality, originality, and the significance of the work.
Editors may not use unpublished materials for their own research and must recuse themselves from decision-making in cases of conflict of interest.
Concerns regarding potential misconduct are handled in accordance with COPE procedures and in cooperation with the Editorial board and the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Reviewers’ responsibilities
The review process is double-blind.
Reviewers contribute to improving the quality of manuscripts through objective and constructive peer review. They must maintain confidentiality and disclose any conflicts of interest to the editors.
Reviewers should draw attention to relevant publications not cited in the manuscript and inform the editors of any substantial similarity or overlap with other published works.
Reviewers may not use any information obtained during the evaluation of the article for their own or others' benefit.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools
AI tools or AI-assisted technologies may not be listed as authors or co-authors.
Authors may use artificial intelligence tools to improve the clarity of their texts, as well as for spelling or grammar checks. However, they remain fully responsible for the entire content of the publication.
Authors must disclose whether and how they used AI in preparing the manuscript (e.g., for language editing) in the Acknowledgements section at the end of the article.
Authors bear full responsibility for the originality, accuracy, and integrity of the entire manuscript, including any parts produced with the assistance of AI. Artificial intelligence tools must not be used to generate the scholarly content of the manuscript.
Reviewers and editors must not input confidential information into AI systems during the review or editorial process.

Research integrity, data transparency, and research involving human participants
Authors are responsible for the accuracy and reliability of the data presented in the manuscript. Where relevant, they should include a data availability statement. When possible, they should reference the data source or deposit the data in a publicly accessible repository.
Where applicable, authors must confirm that the research meets ethical standards for research involving human participants and data protection, and, when required, that informed consent was obtained from participants.

Corrections and retractions
If errors, ethical breaches, or violations of principles are identified after publication, the journal will issue a correction, notice of concern, or retraction in accordance with COPE recommendations. All such notices will be freely accessible and permanently linked to the original article.

Complaints and appeals
Complaints or appeals concerning editorial decisions or ethical matters may be sent to: socuedit@savba.sk
The Editor-in-Chief or the editorial board assesses cases.

Conflicts of interest and funding
All authors must disclose any financial and non-financial conflicts of interest and identify all sources of financial or institutional support in the manuscript.

Contact

Journal SOCIOLÓGIA
Klemensova 19
813 64 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
(4th floor, room no. 99)

Phone: (+421) (2) 52 968 125
Fax: (+421) (2) 52 962 315
E-mail: socuedit@savba.sk