Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Domain ranking · 2003
Social Sciences journal rankings 2003
3,421 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 3,421 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.92, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.85. The top three are European Union Politics, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Economic Policy.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 18.51Q1 | 3.17 1.16 down from 2002 | 51 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
2The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 18.25Q1 | 8.51 1.72 up from 2002 | 133 | 17% | $7,619 | ||
3Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 16.37Q1 | 6.47 1.89 down from 2002 | 45 | 25% | $7,310 | ||
4Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 15.19Q1 | 2.73 0.30 down from 2002 | 145 | 6% | — | ||
5Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 14.95Q1 | 6.34 0.93 up from 2002 | 259 | 2% | $4,250 | ||
6Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.88Q1 | 3.00 0.68 up from 2002 | 138 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
7The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 14.47Q1 | 5.66 0.05 up from 2002 | 180 | 48% | — | ||
8International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 14.37Q1 | 4.63 0.80 up from 2002 | 123 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
9International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 14.25Q1 | 3.97 1.33 up from 2002 | 86 | 0% | — | ||
10American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 13.71Q1 | 4.05 1.02 up from 2002 | 178 | 8% | $4,100 | ||
11MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.05Q1 | 8.00 2.55 up from 2002 | 83 | 3% | — | ||
12Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 13.04Q1 | 6.19 3.46 up from 2002 | 159 | 11% | — | ||
13World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 13.00Q1 | 2.48 0.28 up from 2002 | 100 | 26% | — | ||
14Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.86Q1 | 6.12 1.62 up from 2002 | 102 | 5% | $5,400 | ||
15California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.39Q1 | 4.78 1.97 up from 2002 | 102 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
16Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.29Q1 | 5.89 0.88 up from 2002 | 193 | 7% | $4,740 | ||
17Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.21Q1 | 3.70 0.20 down from 2002 | 45 | 21% | $4,290 | ||
18Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 12.15Q1 | 3.38 0.71 up from 2002 | 72 | 8% | — | ||
19Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.08Q1 | 6.89 3.28 up from 2002 | 79 | 2% | $4,170 | ||
20The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.81Q1 | 6.47 1.62 up from 2002 | 351 | 22% | $4,430 | ||
20Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 11.81Q1 | 7.83 4.42 up from 2002 | 71 | 17% | — | ||
22Mobilization An International QuarterlySan Diego State University · United States | 11.56Q1 | 2.32 0.77 up from 2002 | 50 | 6% | — | ||
23The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 11.49Q1 | 3.48 0.59 down from 2002 | 40 | 21% | $3,986 | ||
24Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.26Q1 | 5.49 1.26 up from 2002 | 334 | 0% | — | ||
25American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.17Q1 | 4.39 1.82 up from 2002 | 171 | 2% | — | ||
26West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.16Q1 | 2.25 0.21 down from 2002 | 148 | 13% | — | ||
27British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 10.86Q1 | 4.15 2.48 up from 2002 | 101 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
28CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 10.84Q1 | 4.24 0.08 up from 2002 | 114 | 12% | $3,570 | ||
29Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.83Q1 | 3.84 1.00 down from 2002 | 90 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
30Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.66Q1 | 3.49 0.10 up from 2002 | 139 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
31Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.42Q1 | 3.64 0.90 down from 2002 | 159 | 11% | — | ||
32Sociology of ReligionOxford University Press · United States | 10.37Q1 | 1.75 0.94 up from 2002 | 172 | 2% | $3,492 | ||
33Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 10.20Q1 | 3.89 2.02 up from 2002 | 47 | 3% | $4,638 | ||
34International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 10.06Q1 | 3.00 0.43 up from 2002 | 79 | 26% | $4,320 | ||
35Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 9.97Q1 | 2.89 0.46 up from 2002 | 45 | 6% | $4,050 | ||
36Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 9.46Q1 | 1.10 0.54 down from 2002 | 139 | 12% | — | ||
37Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.40Q1 | 3.41 1.38 up from 2002 | 116 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
38The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 9.31Q1 | 4.86 0.99 up from 2002 | 76 | 21% | $3,986 | ||
39European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.27Q1 | 1.79 0.57 down from 2002 | 50 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
40Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.21Q1 | 3.37 0.07 down from 2002 | 109 | 20% | $4,299 | ||
41Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 8.98Q1 | 4.61 1.55 up from 2002 | 449 | 5% | — | ||
42Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.95Q1 | 4.24 1.27 up from 2002 | 57 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
43Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 8.94Q1 | 3.19 1.34 up from 2002 | 1,248 | 0% | — | ||
44Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.67Q1 | 2.65 0.40 up from 2002 | 123 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
45American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.67Q1 | 3.91 0.23 up from 2002 | 620 | 10% | — | ||
46Millennium Journal of International StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.64Q1 | 1.10 0.32 up from 2002 | 96 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
47Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.63Q1 | 3.26 1.06 up from 2002 | 97 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
48TESOL QuarterlyWiley · United States | 8.61Q1 | 2.20 0.29 up from 2002 | 208 | 1% | $2,850 | ||
49Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 8.49Q1 | 3.29 1.88 up from 2002 | 245 | 1% | — | ||
50American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.46Q1 | 2.99 0.59 up from 2002 | 287 | 12% | $3,900 |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences1,622
- Psychology590
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance487
- Business, Management and Accounting362
- Arts and Humanities272
- Decision Sciences88
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,216 additional Social Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 3,421
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,289,835 +32.6% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.92 +13.9% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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 |
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| 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.