Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Domain ranking · 2001
Social Sciences journal rankings 2001
3,074 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 3,074 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 1.70. The top three are Journal of Economic Literature, International Organization, and Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
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.
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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 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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1Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 25.08Q1 | 10.71 3.40 up from 2000 | 59 | 13% | — | ||
2International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 24.96Q1 | 6.05 1.84 up from 2000 | 120 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
3Brookings Papers on Economic ActivityUnited States | 21.48Q1 | 4.17 5.62 down from 2000 | 48 | 50% | — | ||
4The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 19.78Q1 | 8.30 2.33 up from 2000 | 131 | 4% | $7,619 | ||
5World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 18.49Q1 | 5.07 1.17 up from 2000 | 83 | 22% | — | ||
6Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 17.09Q1 | 4.68 1.83 up from 2000 | 100 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
7Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 14.74Q1 | 5.03 2.03 up from 2000 | 58 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
8California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.38Q1 | 2.97 3.42 down from 2000 | 113 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
9American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 13.58Q1 | 5.05 2.66 up from 2000 | 178 | 0% | $4,100 | ||
10Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 13.27Q1 | 2.80 1.67 down from 2000 | 122 | 7% | — | ||
11The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.05Q1 | 4.98 0.96 up from 2000 | 192 | 42% | — | ||
12Millennium Journal of International StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.26Q1 | 1.77 1.18 up from 2000 | 106 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
13European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.85Q1 | 2.66 1.11 up from 2000 | 50 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
14Environmental PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.40Q1 | 5.39 4.35 up from 2000 | 170 | 2% | — | ||
15Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 11.28Q1 | 4.04 1.18 down from 2000 | 41 | 7% | $7,310 | ||
16Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.07Q1 | 5.31 0.95 up from 2000 | 126 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
17The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 10.71Q1 | 3.80 1.51 up from 2000 | 71 | 4% | $3,986 | ||
18Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 10.52Q1 | 3.35 2.41 up from 2000 | 74 | 0% | — | ||
19MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 10.46Q1 | 5.24 0.12 down from 2000 | 87 | 4% | — | ||
20International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 10.44Q1 | 4.36 1.53 up from 2000 | 105 | 3% | — | ||
21Review of International StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 10.13Q1 | 2.08 1.31 up from 2000 | 171 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
22Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.89Q1 | 2.99 0.34 down from 2000 | 171 | 16% | — | ||
23The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 9.87Q1 | 4.24 0.10 down from 2000 | 332 | 21% | $4,430 | ||
24American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.58Q1 | 3.84 0.47 up from 2000 | 150 | 3% | — | ||
25Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.36Q1 | 2.70 1.36 up from 2000 | 63 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
26American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 9.24Q1 | 4.07 1.11 up from 2000 | 469 | 11% | — | ||
27Review of International Political EconomyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 9.18Q1 | 2.33 0.52 up from 2000 | 78 | 16% | — | ||
28Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 9.02Q1 | 3.73 1.86 up from 2000 | 103 | 8% | — | ||
29Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 8.98Q1 | 3.60 0.20 up from 2000 | 388 | 2% | — | ||
30Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.97Q1 | 3.55 0.10 down from 2000 | 212 | 9% | $5,400 | ||
31British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 8.71Q1 | 2.84 0.71 up from 2000 | 98 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
32Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.70Q1 | 1.49 1.75 down from 2000 | 101 | 37% | $5,098 | ||
33Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.50Q1 | 4.00 2.00 up from 2000 | 169 | 14% | $4,300 | ||
34Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.49Q1 | 3.95 0.43 down from 2000 | 162 | 8% | $4,740 | ||
35SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 8.36Q1 | 2.36 0.84 up from 2000 | 33 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
36Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 8.36Q1 | 3.92 0.61 up from 2000 | 158 | 11% | — | ||
37Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 8.36Q1 | 4.56 1.63 up from 2000 | 103 | 4% | $4,790 | ||
38International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.31Q1 | 2.85 2.58 up from 2000 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
39International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 8.19Q1 | 2.95 1.40 up from 2000 | 94 | 25% | $4,320 | ||
40Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 8.07Q1 | 2.51 0.32 up from 2000 | 1,282 | 0% | — | ||
41Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 8.06Q1 | 1.61 0.41 up from 2000 | 105 | 5% | — | ||
42Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.95Q1 | 2.26 0.15 up from 2000 | 150 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
43European Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 7.91Q1 | 3.15 1.36 up from 2000 | 284 | 15% | $3,690 | ||
44Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.77Q1 | 2.81 1.56 up from 2000 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
45Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.69Q1 | 4.61 3.17 up from 2000 | 90 | 2% | — | ||
46Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 7.69Q1 | 3.58 0.41 up from 2000 | 292 | 10% | $4,250 | ||
47Alternatives Global Local PoliticalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.62Q1 | 2.44 1.98 up from 2000 | 69 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
48Environment and Development EconomicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.60Q1 | 4.11 3.53 up from 2000 | 129 | 2% | $3,550 | ||
49Journal of Cognitive PsychotherapySpringer Nature · United States | 7.58Q1 | 7.66 0.76 up from 2000 | 90 | 0% | — | ||
50Theory and SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.32Q1 | 1.96 0.75 down from 2000 | 85 | 0% | $2,890 |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences1,451
- Psychology548
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance425
- Business, Management and Accounting319
- Arts and Humanities255
- Decision Sciences76
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.
1,183 additional Social Sciences 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
- 3,074
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,101,576 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.86 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
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 | 2,933 | 3,074 | 3,257 | 3,421 | 3,551 | 3,684 | 3,847 | 4,034 | 4,222 | 4,411 | 4,638 | 4,858 | 5,103 | 5,326 | 5,550 | 5,769 | 5,975 | 6,155 | 6,251 | 6,310 | 6,367 | 6,458 | 6,516 | 6,519 | 6,456 | 6,382 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 973,082 | 1,101,576 | 1,187,966 | 1,289,835 | 1,324,068 | 1,431,668 | 1,541,994 | 1,678,086 | 1,825,065 | 1,985,403 | 2,148,912 | 2,303,999 | 2,468,040 | 2,603,480 | 2,734,303 | 2,869,634 | 3,018,278 | 3,128,445 | 3,209,329 | 3,319,936 | 3,489,326 | 3,755,807 | 4,010,665 | 4,149,019 | 4,247,103 | 4,426,831 | |
| Median OJR | 0.81 | 0.86 | 0.88 | 0.92 | 0.96 | 1.0001 | 1.063 | 1.14 | 1.196 | 1.22 | 1.242 | 1.25 | 1.26 | 1.241 | 1.236 | 1.204 | 1.179 | 1.181 | 1.165 | 1.183 | 1.158 | 1.09 | 1.067 | 1.057 | 1.065 | 1.08 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.6% | 4,027 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.605 per 1,000 | 3,404 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.2% | 5,924 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 56.3% | 6,382 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,390 | 2,626 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.9% | 5,817 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 6,382 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 1.12 | 6,330 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 42.6% | 6,382 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 49.1% | 6,369 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.