Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Subfield ranking · 2000
Political Science and International Relations journal rankings 2000
185 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Political Science and International Relations has 185 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.91. The top three are European Law Journal, Journal of European Public Policy, and JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
185 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1European Law JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 18.22Q1 | 2.95no 1999 value | 63 | 7% | $3,570 | — | |
2Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 16.43Q1 | 4.47no 1999 value | 124 | 10% | — | — | |
3JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 10.95Q1 | 2.63no 1999 value | 113 | 10% | $4,170 | — | |
4Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.27Q1 | 2.85no 1999 value | 83 | 6% | $3,900 | — | |
5West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.73Q1 | 1.69no 1999 value | 140 | 5% | — | — | |
6Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 8.23Q1 | 2.19no 1999 value | 1,308 | 1% | — | — | |
7Journal of Islamic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.98Q1 | 2.00no 1999 value | 31 | 0% | $4,026 | — | |
8Journal of Public PolicyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.89Q1 | 2.29no 1999 value | 51 | 6% | $3,550 | — | |
9International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 7.84Q1 | 2.83no 1999 value | 143 | 0% | — | — | |
10American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 7.54Q1 | 2.39no 1999 value | 186 | 2% | $4,100 | — | |
11Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.48Q1 | 2.11no 1999 value | 156 | 2% | $3,650 | — | |
12Comparative Studies in Society and HistoryCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.93Q1 | 1.95no 1999 value | 114 | 27% | $3,550 | — | |
13European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 1.55no 1999 value | 48 | 11% | $3,900 | — | |
14Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 1.02no 1999 value | 67 | 17% | $4,030 | — | |
15British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.17Q1 | 2.13no 1999 value | 97 | 6% | $3,550 | — | |
16International AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.86Q1 | 1.07no 1999 value | 418 | 3% | $4,936 | — | |
17Journal of Education PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 1.60no 1999 value | 135 | 6% | — | — | |
18GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 4.44Q1 | 1.47no 1999 value | 65 | 0% | $3,730 | — | |
19Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 4.24Q1 | 1.04no 1999 value | 216 | 1% | — | — | |
20Philosophy & Public AffairsWiley · United States | 4.11Q1 | 1.26no 1999 value | 50 | 10% | $3,460 | — | |
21Government and OppositionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 1.20no 1999 value | 89 | 2% | $3,550 | — | |
22Comparative EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 1.51no 1999 value | 72 | 0% | — | — | |
23Environment and Planning C Government and PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 1.19no 1999 value | 130 | 26% | — | — | |
24Higher Education QuarterlyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 0.88no 1999 value | 60 | 6% | $2,900 | — | |
25International Political Science ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 1.21no 1999 value | 73 | 13% | $3,650 | — | |
26Journal of Social PolicyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 1.35no 1999 value | 85 | 5% | $3,550 | — | |
27Electoral StudiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.31Q1 | 0.53no 1999 value | 183 | 3% | $2,840 | — | |
28European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 0.83no 1999 value | 336 | 1% | $3,550 | — | |
29East European Politics and Societies and CulturesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.97Q1 | 0.61no 1999 value | 86 | 3% | $3,650 | — | |
30Public Opinion QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 2.81Q1 | 0.77no 1999 value | 138 | 0% | $3,969 | — | |
31The China QuarterlyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 0.83no 1999 value | 154 | 12% | $3,550 | — | |
32Political BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 0.84no 1999 value | 51 | 0% | $2,990 | — | |
33Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 0.82no 1999 value | 84 | 2% | $3,650 | — | |
34Scandinavian Political StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 0.81no 1999 value | 62 | 4% | $2,950 | — | |
35DemocratizationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 0.78no 1999 value | 118 | 0% | — | — | |
36Legislative Studies QuarterlyWiley · United States | 2.60Q1 | 0.52no 1999 value | 74 | 0% | $3,190 | — | |
37Social Policy and AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 0.68no 1999 value | 99 | 2% | $4,330 | — | |
38Policy & PoliticsPolicy Press · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 0.83no 1999 value | 87 | 10% | — | — | |
39Europe Asia StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 0.86no 1999 value | 187 | 2% | — | — | |
40The Pacific ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 0.68no 1999 value | 84 | 0% | — | — | |
41Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 0.78no 1999 value | 164 | 2% | $2,290 | — | |
42Security StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 0.86no 1999 value | 81 | 3% | — | — | |
43Compare A Journal of Comparative and International EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 0.89no 1999 value | 65 | 3% | — | — | |
44German PoliticsRoutledge · United States | 2.33Q1 | 0.77no 1999 value | 92 | 5% | — | — | |
45Commonwealth and Comparative PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 0.76no 1999 value | 34 | 3% | — | — | |
46Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International OrganizationsLynne Rienner Publishers · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 0.66no 1999 value | 70 | 7% | — | — | |
47Post-Soviet Geography and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.91Q1 | 0.71no 1999 value | 94 | 32% | — | — | |
48Journal of Strategic StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q2 | 0.38no 1999 value | 82 | 2% | — | — | |
49American Politics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.81Q2 | 0.39no 1999 value | 68 | 4% | $3,650 | — | |
50Virginia Law ReviewUniversity of Virginia · United States | 1.81Q2 | 0.08no 1999 value | 118 | 13% | — | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Political Science and International Relations highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science588
- Education306
- Political Science and International Relations185
- Public Administration39
- Communication28
- Gender Studies28
- Linguistics and Language28
- Safety Research27
- Health26
- Law26
- Library and Information Sciences26
- Anthropology24
- Transportation22
- Urban Studies17
- Demography16
- Geography, Planning and Development12
- Cultural Studies7
- Development1
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Human Factors and Ergonomics0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
61 additional Political Science and International Relations journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 185
- Window papers (baseline)
- 87,090 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.81 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 185 | 187 | 198 | 211 | 222 | 236 | 243 | 248 | 255 | 260 | 270 | 279 | 287 | 287 | 294 | 301 | 308 | 318 | 321 | 326 | 332 | 333 | 339 | 334 | 334 | 322 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 87,090 | 92,551 | 99,427 | 106,761 | 113,825 | 122,173 | 130,947 | 139,764 | 148,869 | 159,463 | 170,900 | 180,910 | 191,534 | 201,200 | 210,369 | 223,416 | 235,982 | 245,820 | 247,938 | 251,957 | 262,579 | 278,323 | 289,523 | 291,064 | 289,519 | 294,162 | |
| Median OJR | 0.81 | 0.99 | 0.90 | 1.09 | 1.12 | 1.31 | 1.27 | 1.42 | 1.603 | 1.68 | 1.77 | 1.74 | 1.73 | 1.78 | 1.69 | 1.83 | 1.92 | 1.87 | 1.723 | 1.85 | 1.67 | 1.71 | 1.602 | 1.63 | 1.52 | 1.718 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.