Long-form book publication pulled studies away from the planned journal

Evidence

Horkheimer and Adorno only abandoned the plan to publish the journal at the end of 1954. The preface to Sociologica stated that the research materials collected by the Institute could not be dealt with in short journal articles, but this could hardly have been the decisive reason for cancelling the journal. Even while the contributions for the first double issue were being put together, it had already been decided that the collaborative study on West German political awareness and the study on the working atmosphere at Mannesmann were to be published independently in book form. Nor could poor quality in the contributions received have been a determining factor. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2008