Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2004
716 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 716 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2003 to 1.09, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.24. The top three are Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Politics & Society.
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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
716 ranked journals
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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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1Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 15.34Q1 | 10.11 2.27 up from 2003 | 70 | 3% | — | ||
2MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.98Q1 | 7.31 0.69 down from 2003 | 106 | 0% | — | ||
3Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 11.91Q1 | 3.07 1.18 down from 2003 | 63 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
4Review of International StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.23Q1 | 3.07 2.50 up from 2003 | 160 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
5Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.39Q1 | 3.53 0.31 down from 2003 | 92 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
6American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.20Q1 | 3.07 1.32 down from 2003 | 143 | 3% | — | ||
7CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 8.33Q1 | 2.53 1.71 down from 2003 | 116 | 5% | $3,570 | ||
8Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 8.04Q1 | 3.21 0.17 down from 2003 | 72 | 4% | — | ||
9Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 7.91Q1 | 2.68 0.28 up from 2003 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
10World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.90Q1 | 2.06 0.42 down from 2003 | 104 | 36% | — | ||
11International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.79Q1 | 2.19 0.81 down from 2003 | 83 | 29% | $4,320 | ||
12European Sociological ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.66Q1 | 3.25 1.54 up from 2003 | 89 | 13% | $5,323 | ||
13Journal of Social IssuesWiley · United States | 7.62Q1 | 3.52 0.26 down from 2003 | 141 | 2% | $3,570 | ||
14Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 7.57Q1 | 0.80 2.09 down from 2003 | 75 | 7% | $4,050 | ||
15American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.21Q1 | 2.87 0.12 down from 2003 | 273 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
16World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.94Q1 | 3.21 0.05 down from 2003 | 413 | 12% | $5,895 | ||
17Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 6.82Q1 | 2.65 0.58 up from 2003 | 92 | 15% | $4,070 | ||
18Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 6.71Q1 | 3.64 1.59 up from 2003 | 55 | 29% | $5,110 | ||
19Theory and SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.63Q1 | 2.37 0.67 up from 2003 | 76 | 6% | $2,890 | ||
20Nations and NationalismWiley · United Kingdom | 6.62Q1 | 2.14 1.54 up from 2003 | 101 | 6% | $3,750 | ||
21Media PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.49Q1 | 2.00 0.80 down from 2003 | 45 | 6% | — | ||
22Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.42Q1 | 2.78 0.89 down from 2003 | 49 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
23Irish Journal of SociologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.22Q1 | 2.81 1.31 up from 2003 | 34 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
24Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.17Q1 | 3.40 1.36 down from 2003 | 227 | 9% | $4,540 | ||
25Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.07Q1 | 2.38 1.03 down from 2003 | 118 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
26Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 5.91Q1 | 2.01 0.91 up from 2003 | 131 | 6% | — | ||
27Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.84Q1 | 3.50 0.88 up from 2003 | 76 | 13% | $5,400 | ||
28African AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.83Q1 | 1.58 0.77 down from 2003 | 121 | 1% | $4,544 | ||
29Social ForcesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.57Q1 | 1.77 0.15 down from 2003 | 179 | 3% | $4,152 | ||
30Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.54Q1 | 1.70 0.70 down from 2003 | 131 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
31Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.52Q1 | 3.52 0.96 down from 2003 | 78 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
32Electronic Commerce Research and ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.50Q1 | 2.95 0.34 up from 2003 | 64 | 5% | $3,210 | ||
33Journal of Theoretical PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 1.39 0.18 down from 2003 | 72 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
34European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 5.35Q1 | 2.49 0.07 up from 2003 | 108 | 16% | — | ||
35Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.29Q1 | 2.77 0.84 up from 2003 | 38 | 4% | $3,590 | ||
36Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.27Q1 | 1.82 0.40 down from 2003 | 64 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
37Millennium Journal of International StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.26Q1 | 1.77 0.67 up from 2003 | 80 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
38The Information SocietyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.17Q1 | 2.53 0.96 up from 2003 | 114 | 2% | — | ||
39Justice QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.10Q1 | 2.96 1.22 up from 2003 | 91 | 9% | — | ||
40European SocietiesOARoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.99Q1 | 2.25 1.59 up from 2003 | 51 | 97% | — | ||
41Mobilization An International QuarterlySan Diego State University · United States | 4.99Q1 | 1.08 1.24 down from 2003 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
42Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)Springer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.96Q1 | 3.68 1.09 up from 2003 | 61 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
43Gender Place & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.96Q1 | 2.13 0.60 up from 2003 | 67 | 3% | — | ||
44Sociology of ReligionOxford University Press · United States | 4.71Q1 | 1.26 0.48 down from 2003 | 176 | 2% | $3,492 | ||
45AntipodeWiley · United Kingdom | 4.66Q1 | 2.22 0.52 up from 2003 | 212 | 13% | $3,520 | ||
46Third World QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 1.72 0.18 up from 2003 | 188 | 7% | — | ||
47British Journal of Social PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.59Q1 | 2.17 0.86 down from 2003 | 105 | 26% | $3,970 | ||
48Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.57Q1 | 1.70 0.75 down from 2003 | 271 | 12% | $4,590 | ||
49Information Technology and PeopleEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 1.84 0.04 up from 2003 | 99 | 3% | — | ||
50Theory Culture & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.51Q1 | 1.44 0.52 up from 2003 | 186 | 10% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science716
- Education363
- Political Science and International Relations222
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies36
- Communication35
- Safety Research33
- Health32
- Library and Information Sciences32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Law26
- Demography24
- Transportation24
- Urban Studies19
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
218 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 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
- 716
- Window papers (baseline)
- 189,148 +35.1% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 1.09 +11.8% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 | 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.