Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Domain ranking · 2002
Social Sciences journal rankings 2002
3,257 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 3,257 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.75. The top three are Post-Soviet Affairs, Journal of Economic Literature, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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.
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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 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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1Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 22.31Q1 | 9.00 6.19 up from 2001 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
2Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 19.62Q1 | 4.54 6.17 down from 2001 | 90 | 4% | — | ||
3The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 16.47Q1 | 6.80 1.50 down from 2001 | 135 | 29% | $7,619 | ||
4European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 16.30Q1 | 4.33 1.77 up from 2001 | 30 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
5Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 16.02Q1 | 8.36 4.32 up from 2001 | 41 | 24% | $7,310 | ||
6Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.99Q1 | 4.84 0.47 down from 2001 | 92 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 13.34Q1 | 3.03 0.23 up from 2001 | 137 | 10% | — | ||
8The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 12.16Q1 | 5.61 0.63 up from 2001 | 190 | 51% | — | ||
9JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 12.15Q1 | 3.58 1.47 up from 2001 | 173 | 38% | $4,170 | ||
10International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 11.29Q1 | 3.84 2.22 down from 2001 | 123 | 41% | $3,550 | ||
11CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 11.23Q1 | 4.15 1.56 up from 2001 | 113 | 10% | $3,570 | ||
12MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 10.95Q1 | 5.45 0.20 up from 2001 | 87 | 17% | — | ||
13Industry and InnovationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.85Q1 | 3.29 1.15 up from 2001 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
14The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 10.63Q1 | 4.85 0.61 up from 2001 | 333 | 20% | $4,430 | ||
15European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.54Q1 | 2.35 0.30 down from 2001 | 49 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
16Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 10.27Q1 | 5.40 1.82 up from 2001 | 263 | 11% | $4,250 | ||
17American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 10.05Q1 | 3.03 2.02 down from 2001 | 175 | 3% | $4,100 | ||
18Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.99Q1 | 5.01 1.06 up from 2001 | 171 | 9% | $4,740 | ||
19Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.64Q1 | 2.97 2.05 down from 2001 | 57 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
20Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.56Q1 | 2.21 1.35 up from 2001 | 91 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
21The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 9.37Q1 | 3.87 0.07 up from 2001 | 76 | 4% | $3,986 | ||
22World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 9.30Q1 | 2.19 2.88 down from 2001 | 93 | 26% | — | ||
23American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.19Q1 | 2.56 1.28 down from 2001 | 162 | 2% | — | ||
24Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.96Q1 | 3.79 0.82 down from 2001 | 100 | 6% | — | ||
25Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.91Q1 | 4.50 0.95 up from 2001 | 173 | 4% | $5,400 | ||
26West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.89Q1 | 2.46 1.33 up from 2001 | 150 | 14% | — | ||
27Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.88Q1 | 3.90 1.11 up from 2001 | 42 | 6% | $4,290 | ||
28Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 8.82Q1 | 4.68 0.12 up from 2001 | 116 | 8% | $4,790 | ||
29International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 8.65Q1 | 2.19 0.04 down from 2001 | 157 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
30TESOL QuarterlyWiley · United States | 8.64Q1 | 1.90 0.34 up from 2001 | 232 | 7% | $2,850 | ||
31Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 8.62Q1 | 4.23 0.62 up from 2001 | 372 | 2% | — | ||
32American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.57Q1 | 3.68 0.38 down from 2001 | 587 | 19% | — | ||
33Ethnic and Racial StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 8.33Q1 | 1.57 0.33 down from 2001 | 125 | 11% | — | ||
34The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 8.32Q1 | 4.07 0.85 up from 2001 | 43 | 31% | $3,986 | ||
35Brookings Papers on Economic ActivityUnited States | 8.24Q1 | 3.11 1.06 down from 2001 | 58 | 38% | — | ||
36Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 8.21Q1 | 2.63 1.10 down from 2001 | 103 | 0% | — | ||
37Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 8.17Q1 | 2.73 1.19 down from 2001 | 153 | 15% | — | ||
38California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.16Q1 | 2.81 0.16 down from 2001 | 105 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
39Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.10Q1 | 2.32 2.36 down from 2001 | 115 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
40Journal of Cognitive PsychotherapySpringer Nature · United States | 7.96Q1 | 2.22 5.44 down from 2001 | 102 | 0% | — | ||
41International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 7.80Q1 | 2.63 1.72 down from 2001 | 81 | 7% | — | ||
42Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 7.69Q1 | 2.67 0.69 down from 2001 | 72 | 8% | — | ||
43Transportation Research Part B MethodologicalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.60Q1 | 2.25 0.83 up from 2001 | 118 | 7% | $3,810 | ||
44Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 7.57Q1 | 1.85 0.65 down from 2001 | 1,183 | 1% | — | ||
45Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.36Q1 | 2.58 0.73 up from 2001 | 50 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
46Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.25Q1 | 3.61 1.27 up from 2001 | 93 | 5% | $4,170 | ||
47International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.18Q1 | 2.57 0.37 down from 2001 | 84 | 32% | $4,320 | ||
48British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.05Q1 | 1.67 1.16 down from 2001 | 105 | 14% | $3,550 | ||
49Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.96Q1 | 0.85 1.69 down from 2001 | 37 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
50Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.89Q1 | 2.80 0.06 up from 2001 | 216 | 9% | $4,280 |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences1,539
- Psychology577
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance460
- Business, Management and Accounting337
- Arts and Humanities265
- Decision Sciences79
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.
1,192 additional Social Sciences 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
- 3,257
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,187,966 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.88 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
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 | 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.