Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Political Science and International Relations journal rankings 2002
198 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Political Science and International Relations has 198 ranked journals in 2002. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2001 to 0.90, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.20. The top three are European Union Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, and JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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)
198 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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 16.30Q1 | 4.33 1.77 up from 2001 | 30 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
2Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 13.34Q1 | 3.03 0.23 up from 2001 | 137 | 10% | — | ||
3JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 12.15Q1 | 3.58 1.47 up from 2001 | 173 | 38% | $4,170 | ||
4European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.54Q1 | 2.35 0.30 down from 2001 | 49 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
5American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 10.05Q1 | 3.03 2.02 down from 2001 | 175 | 3% | $4,100 | ||
6Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.56Q1 | 2.21 1.35 up from 2001 | 91 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
7West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.89Q1 | 2.46 1.33 up from 2001 | 150 | 14% | — | ||
8Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.10Q1 | 2.32 2.36 down from 2001 | 115 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
9International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 7.80Q1 | 2.63 1.72 down from 2001 | 81 | 7% | — | ||
10Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 7.57Q1 | 1.85 0.65 down from 2001 | 1,183 | 1% | — | ||
11British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.05Q1 | 1.67 1.16 down from 2001 | 105 | 14% | $3,550 | ||
12The China QuarterlyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 6.46Q1 | 1.77 0.89 up from 2001 | 163 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
13Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 6.03Q1 | 1.40 0.24 down from 2001 | 240 | 1% | — | ||
14GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 5.80Q1 | 2.30 0.40 up from 2001 | 66 | 16% | $3,730 | ||
15Electoral StudiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.75Q1 | 1.00 0.59 down from 2001 | 135 | 3% | $2,840 | ||
16Scandinavian Political StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 5.40Q1 | 1.49 0.42 up from 2001 | 62 | 0% | $2,950 | ||
17Journal of Public PolicyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 1.35 0.61 down from 2001 | 47 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
18Journal of Education PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.12Q1 | 1.34 0.23 down from 2001 | 162 | 9% | — | ||
19Journal of Government InformationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 2.25 1.71 up from 2001 | 283 | 3% | — | ||
20Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.03Q1 | 1.05 1.20 down from 2001 | 147 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
21German PoliticsRoutledge · United States | 4.81Q1 | 1.30 0.37 up from 2001 | 100 | 5% | — | ||
22Europe Asia StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 1.22 0.14 up from 2001 | 197 | 6% | — | ||
23Comparative Studies in Society and HistoryCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 1.31 0.52 up from 2001 | 108 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
24Government and OppositionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 0.88 0.46 up from 2001 | 84 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
25Public Opinion QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 4.08Q1 | 1.55 0.72 up from 2001 | 147 | 2% | $3,969 | ||
26European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 0.96 0.39 down from 2001 | 320 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
27DemocratizationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.95Q1 | 1.33 0.44 up from 2001 | 124 | 2% | — | ||
28International AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 0.98 0.15 up from 2001 | 126 | 3% | $4,936 | ||
29Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 1.16 0.65 up from 2001 | 76 | 11% | $4,030 | ||
30European Law JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 1.54 1.17 up from 2001 | 62 | 56% | $3,570 | ||
31Philosophy & Public AffairsWiley · United States | 3.62Q1 | 1.08 0.10 down from 2001 | 54 | — | $3,460 | ||
32Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International OrganizationsLynne Rienner Publishers · Netherlands | 3.21Q1 | 1.11 0.69 down from 2001 | 77 | 3% | — | ||
33Journal of European IntegrationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 3.18Q1 | 1.00 0.64 up from 2001 | 33 | 6% | — | ||
34Social Policy and AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 0.77 0.08 up from 2001 | 115 | 11% | $4,330 | ||
35Policing & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 1.24 0.43 up from 2001 | 53 | 3% | — | ||
36Problems of Post-CommunismTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.00Q1 | 0.91 0.43 up from 2001 | 129 | 0% | — | ||
37Post-Soviet Geography and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.95Q1 | 0.97 0.03 up from 2001 | 90 | 0% | — | ||
38Ethics & International AffairsCambridge University Press · United States | 2.93Q1 | 0.40 1.25 down from 2001 | 76 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
39Legislative Studies QuarterlyWiley · United States | 2.73Q1 | 0.65 0.45 down from 2001 | 77 | 1% | $3,190 | ||
40Parliamentary AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 0.69 0.02 up from 2001 | 171 | 7% | $4,468 | ||
41The Pacific ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 0.59 0.60 down from 2001 | 100 | 5% | — | ||
42Policy & PoliticsPolicy Press · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 1.32 0.24 up from 2001 | 97 | 11% | — | ||
43Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 0.84 0.01 down from 2001 | 149 | 2% | $2,290 | ||
44Journal of Social PolicyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 1.03 0.22 up from 2001 | 98 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
45International Political Science ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 0.93 0.31 up from 2001 | 67 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
46The American Journal of Comparative LawOxford University Press · United States | 2.35Q1 | 0.68 0.14 up from 2001 | 86 | 4% | $4,402 | ||
47Comparative EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 0.77 1.07 down from 2001 | 101 | 3% | — | ||
48American Politics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.24Q1 | 0.48 0.26 down from 2001 | 89 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
49Environment and Planning C Government and PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 0.87 0.13 up from 2001 | 152 | 14% | — | ||
50The Journal of PoliticsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.20Q1 | 0.82 0.02 down from 2001 | 317 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Political Science and International Relations highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science642
- Education333
- Political Science and International Relations198
- Public Administration44
- Gender Studies35
- Communication32
- Safety Research30
- Health29
- Linguistics and Language29
- Library and Information Sciences28
- Anthropology26
- Law26
- Demography22
- Transportation21
- Urban Studies19
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies7
- Development2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Human Factors and Ergonomics0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
72 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 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 198
- Window papers (baseline)
- 99,427 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.90 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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.