Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2003
679 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 679 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.99, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 2.12. The top three are MIS Quarterly, World Politics, and Comparative Politics.
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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
679 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 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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1MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.05Q1 | 8.00 2.55 up from 2002 | 83 | 3% | — | ||
2World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 13.00Q1 | 2.48 0.28 up from 2002 | 100 | 26% | — | ||
3Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 12.15Q1 | 3.38 0.71 up from 2002 | 72 | 8% | — | ||
4Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 11.81Q1 | 7.83 4.42 up from 2002 | 71 | 17% | — | ||
5Mobilization An International QuarterlySan Diego State University · United States | 11.56Q1 | 2.32 0.77 up from 2002 | 50 | 6% | — | ||
6American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.17Q1 | 4.39 1.82 up from 2002 | 171 | 2% | — | ||
7CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 10.84Q1 | 4.24 0.08 up from 2002 | 114 | 12% | $3,570 | ||
8Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.83Q1 | 3.84 1.00 down from 2002 | 90 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
9Sociology of ReligionOxford University Press · United States | 10.37Q1 | 1.75 0.94 up from 2002 | 172 | 2% | $3,492 | ||
10International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 10.06Q1 | 3.00 0.43 up from 2002 | 79 | 26% | $4,320 | ||
11Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 9.97Q1 | 2.89 0.46 up from 2002 | 45 | 6% | $4,050 | ||
12Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 9.46Q1 | 1.10 0.54 down from 2002 | 139 | 12% | — | ||
13Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.40Q1 | 3.41 1.38 up from 2002 | 116 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
14Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.95Q1 | 4.24 1.27 up from 2002 | 57 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
15Millennium Journal of International StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.64Q1 | 1.10 0.32 up from 2002 | 96 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
16American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.46Q1 | 2.99 0.59 up from 2002 | 287 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
17Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.27Q1 | 2.40 0.16 up from 2002 | 142 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
18Theory and SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.00Q1 | 1.69 0.04 up from 2002 | 74 | 0% | $2,890 | ||
19Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 7.48Q1 | 2.40 0.97 up from 2002 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
20Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.32Q1 | 2.61 6.39 down from 2002 | 45 | 7% | — | ||
21Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.07Q1 | 4.76 1.62 up from 2002 | 155 | 5% | $4,540 | ||
22African AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.74Q1 | 2.35 1.47 up from 2002 | 113 | 6% | $4,544 | ||
23Ethnic and Racial StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.59Q1 | 2.02 0.45 up from 2002 | 129 | 5% | — | ||
24Journal of Social IssuesWiley · United States | 6.41Q1 | 3.78 1.26 up from 2002 | 144 | 4% | $3,570 | ||
25Social ForcesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.38Q1 | 1.92 0.22 up from 2002 | 260 | 3% | $4,152 | ||
26Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.35Q1 | 3.67 1.09 up from 2002 | 49 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
27World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.30Q1 | 3.26 0.28 up from 2002 | 400 | 11% | $5,895 | ||
28Journal for the Scientific Study of ReligionWiley · United States | 6.15Q1 | 2.59 1.64 up from 2002 | 156 | 8% | $3,240 | ||
29Annals of the Association of American GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers · United States | 6.14Q1 | 2.63 0.34 down from 2002 | 119 | 0% | — | ||
30Media PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.71Q1 | 2.80 1.51 up from 2002 | 46 | 3% | — | ||
31Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.64Q1 | 4.48 1.58 down from 2002 | 75 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
32Psychological InquiryTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.56Q1 | 3.43 0.94 up from 2002 | 60 | 3% | — | ||
33Journal of Marriage and the FamilyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.50Q1 | 2.46 0.47 down from 2002 | 258 | 15% | $4,050 | ||
34The Journal of Development StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.32Q1 | 1.43 0.38 down from 2002 | 148 | 14% | — | ||
35Journal of Theoretical PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.29Q1 | 1.57 0.57 down from 2002 | 64 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
36Review of Religious ResearchSAGE Publishing · Netherlands | 5.24Q1 | 1.24 0.19 up from 2002 | 108 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
37Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.21Q1 | 2.44 0.90 up from 2002 | 216 | 12% | $4,590 | ||
38EthnographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.08Q1 | 1.53 0.58 up from 2002 | 71 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
39PoeticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.90Q1 | 1.54 0.74 up from 2002 | 85 | 13% | $3,390 | ||
40Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)Springer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.70Q1 | 2.59 0.59 up from 2002 | 57 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
41International Studies ReviewOxford University Press · United States | 4.66Q1 | 1.94 1.15 up from 2002 | 89 | 1% | $4,320 | ||
42The British Journal of CriminologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.53Q1 | 1.65 0.16 up from 2002 | 138 | 8% | $5,341 | ||
43The Information SocietyTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.51Q1 | 1.57 0.03 up from 2002 | 108 | 6% | — | ||
44International SociologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 0.83 0.86 down from 2002 | 92 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
45British Journal of SociologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 1.18 0.83 down from 2002 | 162 | 11% | $3,840 | ||
46GeoforumElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 1.30 1.23 down from 2002 | 134 | 5% | $3,390 | ||
47Discourse & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 1.16 0.13 up from 2002 | 95 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
48Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 2.05 0.83 up from 2002 | 59 | 5% | $5,110 | ||
49Journal of Experimental Social PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.39Q1 | 2.66 0.41 down from 2002 | 141 | 5% | $3,220 | ||
50Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 2.07 0.10 down from 2002 | 87 | 7% | $4,070 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science679
- Education348
- Political Science and International Relations211
- Public Administration46
- Communication36
- Gender Studies36
- Health32
- Safety Research31
- Library and Information Sciences30
- Linguistics and Language30
- Anthropology29
- Law24
- Transportation23
- Demography22
- Urban Studies18
- Geography, Planning and Development16
- Cultural Studies6
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
216 additional Sociology and Political Science 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
- 679
- Window papers (baseline)
- 173,690 +35.9% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.99 +6.9% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 | 588 | 615 | 642 | 679 | 716 | 742 | 776 | 826 | 861 | 899 | 960 | 1,005 | 1,049 | 1,090 | 1,140 | 1,184 | 1,233 | 1,300 | 1,315 | 1,325 | 1,333 | 1,377 | 1,389 | 1,403 | 1,402 | 1,388 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 127,769 | 139,962 | 155,545 | 173,690 | 189,148 | 206,415 | 224,690 | 248,047 | 274,644 | 301,558 | 326,495 | 347,409 | 369,647 | 386,451 | 401,728 | 420,106 | 443,739 | 460,936 | 466,601 | 478,291 | 498,577 | 539,978 | 579,161 | 604,240 | 617,692 | 634,590 | |
| Median OJR | 0.92 | 0.98 | 0.95 | 0.99 | 1.09 | 1.1344 | 1.27 | 1.34 | 1.380 | 1.3830 | 1.44 | 1.43 | 1.47 | 1.42 | 1.3831 | 1.35 | 1.3317 | 1.3322 | 1.28 | 1.31 | 1.32 | 1.22 | 1.17 | 1.14 | 1.11 | 1.1341 |
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.