Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Political Science and International Relations journal rankings 2001
187 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Political Science and International Relations has 187 ranked journals in 2001. The median OJR rose 0.18 on 2000 to 0.99, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.40. The top three are Comparative Political Studies, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of European Public Policy.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. 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 1998–2000, the window the 2001 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)
187 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 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 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 2001. | Compare |
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1Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 17.09Q1 | 4.68 1.83 up from 2000 | 100 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
2American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 13.58Q1 | 5.05 2.66 up from 2000 | 178 | 0% | $4,100 | ||
3Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 13.27Q1 | 2.80 1.67 down from 2000 | 122 | 7% | — | ||
4European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.85Q1 | 2.66 1.11 up from 2000 | 50 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
5International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 10.44Q1 | 4.36 1.53 up from 2000 | 105 | 3% | — | ||
6British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 8.71Q1 | 2.84 0.71 up from 2000 | 98 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
7Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 8.07Q1 | 2.51 0.32 up from 2000 | 1,282 | 0% | — | ||
8Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.95Q1 | 2.26 0.15 up from 2000 | 150 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
9Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 6.92Q1 | 1.64 0.60 up from 2000 | 234 | 0% | — | ||
10GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 6.45Q1 | 1.89 0.42 up from 2000 | 69 | 6% | $3,730 | ||
11JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.38Q1 | 2.11 0.52 down from 2000 | 144 | 15% | $4,170 | ||
12Journal of Public PolicyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 6.01Q1 | 1.97 0.32 down from 2000 | 45 | 0% | $3,550 | ||
13Legislative Studies QuarterlyWiley · United States | 5.69Q1 | 1.10 0.58 up from 2000 | 76 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
14European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 5.55Q1 | 1.34 0.51 up from 2000 | 303 | 1% | $3,550 | ||
15Political AnalysisCambridge University Press · United States | 5.20Q1 | 1.96 0.69 up from 2000 | 35 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
16Pacifica Review Peace Security & Global ChangeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.82Q1 | 1.34 1.11 up from 2000 | 52 | 3% | — | ||
17West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 1.13 0.56 down from 2000 | 141 | 6% | — | ||
18Ethics & International AffairsCambridge University Press · United States | 4.73Q1 | 1.65 1.28 up from 2000 | 57 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
19Philosophy & Public AffairsWiley · United States | 4.61Q1 | 1.18 0.08 down from 2000 | 50 | 4% | $3,460 | ||
20Regional & Federal StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 1.08 0.84 up from 2000 | 77 | 3% | — | ||
21European Law JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.33Q1 | 0.37 2.58 down from 2000 | 62 | 7% | $3,570 | ||
22Electoral StudiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.25Q1 | 1.59 1.06 up from 2000 | 125 | 4% | $2,840 | ||
23The British Journal of Politics and International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.23Q1 | 1.21 0.37 up from 2000 | 42 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
24Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 0.51 0.51 down from 2000 | 69 | 10% | $4,030 | ||
25Journal of Education PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 1.57 0.03 down from 2000 | 142 | 7% | — | ||
26Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International OrganizationsLynne Rienner Publishers · Netherlands | 4.05Q1 | 1.80 1.14 up from 2000 | 73 | 3% | — | ||
27Comparative EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 1.84 0.33 up from 2000 | 84 | 0% | — | ||
28Global SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 0.91 0.61 up from 2000 | 75 | 6% | — | ||
29Europe Asia StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 1.08 0.22 up from 2000 | 200 | 6% | — | ||
30Comparative Studies in Society and HistoryCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 0.79 1.16 down from 2000 | 107 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
31Studies in American Political DevelopmentCambridge University Press · United States | 3.40Q1 | 0.29 0.13 down from 2000 | 37 | 0% | $3,550 | ||
32Policy & PoliticsPolicy Press · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 1.07 0.24 up from 2000 | 93 | 6% | — | ||
33International AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 0.83 0.24 down from 2000 | 127 | 6% | $4,936 | ||
34Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 0.86 0.04 up from 2000 | 85 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
35Public Opinion QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 3.08Q1 | 0.82 0.06 up from 2000 | 142 | 4% | $3,969 | ||
36Scandinavian Political StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 1.07 0.26 up from 2000 | 65 | 10% | $2,950 | ||
37Parliamentary AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 0.67 0.39 up from 2000 | 157 | 6% | $4,468 | ||
38Journal of Social PolicyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.93Q1 | 0.81 0.54 down from 2000 | 89 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
39The China QuarterlyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 0.88 0.05 up from 2000 | 164 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
40East European Politics and Societies and CulturesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.74Q1 | 0.17 0.44 down from 2000 | 97 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
41American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 2.74Q1 | 0.78 0.28 up from 2000 | 935 | 2% | $3,550 | ||
42DemocratizationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 0.88 0.11 up from 2000 | 121 | 4% | — | ||
43Commonwealth and Comparative PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 0.27 0.50 down from 2000 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
44Higher Education QuarterlyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 0.71 0.17 down from 2000 | 62 | 9% | $2,900 | ||
45Contemporary PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 0.55 0.30 up from 2000 | 69 | 7% | — | ||
46Studies in Comparative International DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.45Q1 | 0.36 0.13 up from 2000 | 69 | 5% | $3,390 | ||
47Policing & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 0.81 0.21 up from 2000 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
48German PoliticsRoutledge · United States | 2.37Q2 | 0.93 0.16 up from 2000 | 92 | 6% | — | ||
49Journal of World TradeSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 2.34Q2 | 0.55 0.07 up from 2000 | 165 | 6% | — | ||
50American Politics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.33Q2 | 0.74 0.36 up from 2000 | 68 | 2% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Political Science and International Relations highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science615
- Education314
- Political Science and International Relations187
- Public Administration39
- Communication30
- Gender Studies29
- Health28
- Linguistics and Language28
- Safety Research28
- Anthropology27
- Library and Information Sciences26
- Law24
- Transportation21
- Urban Studies17
- Demography16
- Geography, Planning and Development14
- Cultural Studies7
- Development1
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Human Factors and Ergonomics0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
74 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 1998–2000, 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: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 187
- Window papers (baseline)
- 92,551 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.99 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 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.