Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Field ranking · 2000
Social Sciences journal rankings 2000
1,406 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Social Sciences has 1,406 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.75. The top three are European Law Journal, Journal of European Public Policy, and MIS Quarterly.
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.
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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% | — | — | |
3MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 12.25Q1 | 5.36no 1999 value | 80 | 18% | — | — | |
4World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.93Q1 | 3.91no 1999 value | 85 | 33% | — | — | |
5JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 10.95Q1 | 2.63no 1999 value | 113 | 10% | $4,170 | — | |
6Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.78Q1 | 4.37no 1999 value | 155 | 5% | $3,900 | — | |
7Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 9.44Q1 | 2.02no 1999 value | 65 | 100% | — | — | |
8Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.27Q1 | 2.85no 1999 value | 83 | 6% | $3,900 | — | |
9West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.73Q1 | 1.69no 1999 value | 140 | 5% | — | — | |
10American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.42Q1 | 3.37no 1999 value | 142 | 2% | — | — | |
11Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 8.40Q1 | 2.14no 1999 value | 63 | 0% | — | — | |
12Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 8.23Q1 | 2.19no 1999 value | 1,308 | 1% | — | — | |
13Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.16Q1 | 2.50no 1999 value | 48 | 0% | $3,650 | — | |
14CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 8.09Q1 | 3.25no 1999 value | 96 | 10% | $3,570 | — | |
15Journal of Islamic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.98Q1 | 2.00no 1999 value | 31 | 0% | $4,026 | — | |
16Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.89Q1 | 3.30no 1999 value | 53 | 0% | $2,500 | — | |
17Journal of Public PolicyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.89Q1 | 2.29no 1999 value | 51 | 6% | $3,550 | — | |
18International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 7.84Q1 | 2.83no 1999 value | 143 | 0% | — | — | |
19American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 7.54Q1 | 2.39no 1999 value | 186 | 2% | $4,100 | — | |
20American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.46Q1 | 2.74no 1999 value | 229 | 5% | $3,900 | — | |
21Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.00Q1 | 3.00no 1999 value | 59 | 0% | $3,650 | — | |
22Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.98Q1 | 3.43no 1999 value | 109 | 0% | $2,500 | — | |
23British Journal of SociologyWiley · United Kingdom | 6.82Q1 | 1.77no 1999 value | 269 | 5% | $3,840 | — | |
24Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 6.50Q1 | 0.94no 1999 value | 76 | 0% | — | — | |
25Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.48Q1 | 2.11no 1999 value | 156 | 2% | $3,650 | — | |
26Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.39Q1 | 1.25no 1999 value | 50 | 17% | — | — | |
27Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.33Q1 | 2.68no 1999 value | 59 | 0% | $3,650 | — | |
28Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.30Q1 | 1.67no 1999 value | 138 | 8% | $3,900 | — | |
29Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 6.24Q1 | 2.55no 1999 value | 83 | 9% | $4,070 | — | |
30Theory and SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.21Q1 | 2.72no 1999 value | 89 | 3% | $2,890 | — | |
31AntipodeWiley · United Kingdom | 6.04Q1 | 1.29no 1999 value | 60 | 7% | $3,520 | — | |
32Comparative Studies in Society and HistoryCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.93Q1 | 1.95no 1999 value | 114 | 27% | $3,550 | — | |
33Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 5.92Q1 | 4.45no 1999 value | 46 | 0% | — | — | |
34Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.82Q1 | 1.50no 1999 value | 46 | 27% | $4,290 | — | |
35TESOL QuarterlyWiley · United States | 5.69Q1 | 1.37no 1999 value | 276 | 4% | $2,850 | — | |
36Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.67Q1 | 2.17no 1999 value | 381 | 1% | $2,500 | — | |
37Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.65Q1 | 3.14no 1999 value | 71 | 7% | — | — | |
38British Journal of Educational StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 1.67no 1999 value | 80 | 0% | — | — | |
39Gender Place & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.44Q1 | 1.48no 1999 value | 60 | 8% | — | — | |
40Discourse & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.40Q1 | 1.65no 1999 value | 72 | 0% | $3,650 | — | |
41Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.40Q1 | 1.34no 1999 value | 117 | 5% | $3,650 | — | |
42European Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 2.10no 1999 value | 45 | 11% | $3,650 | — | |
43European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 1.55no 1999 value | 48 | 11% | $3,900 | — | |
44Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteWiley · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 1.44no 1999 value | 743 | 10% | $4,120 | — | |
45Review of International Political EconomyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.30Q1 | 1.81no 1999 value | 74 | 9% | — | — | |
46International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 5.29Q1 | 1.55no 1999 value | 96 | 26% | $4,320 | — | |
47Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.25Q1 | 1.88no 1999 value | 130 | 2% | $3,900 | — | |
48Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 1.02no 1999 value | 67 | 17% | $4,030 | — | |
49British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.17Q1 | 2.13no 1999 value | 97 | 6% | $3,550 | — | |
50DemographyOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.15Q1 | 2.61no 1999 value | 126 | 28% | $2,750 | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, compared.
- 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.
490 additional Social Sciences 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
- 1,406
- Window papers (baseline)
- 443,953 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.86 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 134Comparison-group list (134)
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 | 1,406 | 1,451 | 1,539 | 1,622 | 1,698 | 1,765 | 1,844 | 1,932 | 2,018 | 2,111 | 2,231 | 2,335 | 2,450 | 2,548 | 2,662 | 2,755 | 2,851 | 2,959 | 2,994 | 3,028 | 3,056 | 3,141 | 3,149 | 3,144 | 3,107 | 3,066 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 443,953 | 481,120 | 524,797 | 573,040 | 615,403 | 666,449 | 723,952 | 792,817 | 867,532 | 946,631 | 1,027,940 | 1,103,353 | 1,185,358 | 1,256,728 | 1,323,833 | 1,400,086 | 1,483,492 | 1,554,301 | 1,600,611 | 1,663,801 | 1,760,718 | 1,914,483 | 2,065,185 | 2,148,493 | 2,214,535 | 2,302,259 | |
| Median OJR | 0.86 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.97 | 1.03 | 1.09 | 1.16 | 1.30 | 1.365 | 1.382 | 1.43 | 1.42 | 1.40 | 1.377 | 1.356 | 1.352 | 1.353 | 1.346 | 1.31 | 1.33 | 1.32 | 1.23 | 1.194 | 1.187 | 1.18 | 1.20 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.7% | 1,882 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.498 per 1,000 | 1,610 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.6% | 2,852 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 58.5% | 3,066 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,400 | 1,164 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 18.2% | 2,785 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 3,066 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 1.22 | 3,041 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 44.4% | 3,066 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 49.7% | 3,059 journals |
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.