Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Domain ranking · 2004
Social Sciences journal rankings 2004
3,551 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 3,551 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.96, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.87. The top three are Linguistic Inquiry, The Linguistic Review, and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 24.84Q1 | 6.80 4.03 up from 2003 | 97 | 2% | — | ||
2The Linguistic ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 24.68Q1 | 10.21 8.96 up from 2003 | 42 | 0% | $2,712 | ||
3Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 19.73Q1 | 5.36 3.79 up from 2003 | 66 | 5% | $3,090 | ||
4The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 18.29Q1 | 8.25 0.26 down from 2003 | 127 | 17% | $7,619 | ||
5Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 17.89Q1 | 6.98 2.95 up from 2003 | 59 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
6European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 15.46Q1 | 2.82 0.35 down from 2003 | 64 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
7Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 15.34Q1 | 10.11 2.27 up from 2003 | 70 | 3% | — | ||
8Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.28Q1 | 5.64 2.64 up from 2003 | 139 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
9Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.04Q1 | 4.07 2.82 down from 2003 | 85 | 5% | $4,170 | ||
10MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.98Q1 | 7.31 0.69 down from 2003 | 106 | 0% | — | ||
11European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.81Q1 | 2.97 1.18 up from 2003 | 50 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
12International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 13.79Q1 | 3.72 0.91 down from 2003 | 121 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
13Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.25Q1 | 6.57 0.46 up from 2003 | 120 | 11% | $5,400 | ||
14Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.10Q1 | 4.07 2.15 up from 2003 | 73 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
15American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 12.85Q1 | 3.41 0.64 down from 2003 | 233 | 7% | $4,100 | ||
16Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 12.56Q1 | 5.12 1.06 down from 2003 | 170 | 11% | — | ||
17Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 12.33Q1 | 5.27 1.20 down from 2003 | 48 | 31% | $7,310 | ||
18The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 12.26Q1 | 5.44 0.22 down from 2003 | 164 | 48% | — | ||
19Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 12.09Q1 | 4.76 1.57 down from 2003 | 237 | 14% | $4,250 | ||
20British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.99Q1 | 3.72 0.43 down from 2003 | 99 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
21Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 11.91Q1 | 3.07 1.18 down from 2003 | 63 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
22Review of International StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.23Q1 | 3.07 2.50 up from 2003 | 160 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
23Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.22Q1 | 5.17 0.32 down from 2003 | 316 | 4% | — | ||
24Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.12Q1 | 4.22 1.66 up from 2003 | 252 | 1% | $2,500 | ||
25Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 11.10Q1 | 4.15 1.01 up from 2003 | 72 | 22% | $4,030 | ||
26Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 11.03Q1 | 1.88 0.36 up from 2003 | 63 | 2% | $3,830 | ||
27Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.83Q1 | 3.68 0.19 up from 2003 | 155 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
28Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 10.75Q1 | 2.89 0.16 up from 2003 | 157 | 15% | — | ||
29The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 10.66Q1 | 5.75 0.72 down from 2003 | 345 | 28% | $4,430 | ||
30Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.39Q1 | 3.53 0.31 down from 2003 | 92 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
31JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 10.29Q1 | 2.56 0.41 up from 2003 | 182 | 41% | $4,170 | ||
32American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 9.97Q1 | 3.25 0.41 up from 2003 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
33Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 9.86Q1 | 3.57 0.37 up from 2003 | 1,266 | 0% | — | ||
34Journal of SociolinguisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 9.75Q1 | 1.98 0.03 up from 2003 | 96 | 9% | $3,730 | ||
35International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 9.64Q1 | 3.32 0.65 down from 2003 | 90 | 6% | — | ||
36Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.64Q1 | 5.04 0.85 down from 2003 | 234 | 8% | $4,740 | ||
37Political BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.30Q1 | 1.94 0.16 up from 2003 | 49 | 0% | $2,990 | ||
38American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.20Q1 | 3.07 1.32 down from 2003 | 143 | 3% | — | ||
39International AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.19Q1 | 2.93 1.01 up from 2003 | 140 | 2% | $4,936 | ||
40Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.17Q1 | 3.20 0.17 down from 2003 | 128 | 15% | $4,299 | ||
41California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.05Q1 | 3.33 1.45 down from 2003 | 100 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
42Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.03Q1 | 2.12 1.15 down from 2003 | 110 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
43Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 8.95Q1 | 2.87 0.41 down from 2003 | 239 | 3% | — | ||
44Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.88Q1 | 3.13 0.57 down from 2003 | 44 | 36% | $4,290 | ||
45American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.71Q1 | 2.76 1.01 down from 2003 | 94 | 3% | $2,500 | ||
46Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.66Q1 | 2.35 0.30 down from 2003 | 117 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
47Electoral StudiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.62Q1 | 2.37 1.70 up from 2003 | 206 | 2% | $2,840 | ||
48Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.60Q1 | 3.99 0.35 up from 2003 | 200 | 4% | — | ||
49Studies in Comparative International DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 8.57Q1 | 2.36 0.54 down from 2003 | 60 | 10% | $3,390 | ||
50Journal of RetailingElsevier BV · United States | 8.44Q1 | 3.13 0.54 up from 2003 | 82 | 3% | $3,030 |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences1,698
- Psychology609
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance498
- Business, Management and Accounting379
- Arts and Humanities275
- Decision Sciences92
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,276 additional Social Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 3,551
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,324,068 +20.2% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.96 +12.5% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.