Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Political Science and International Relations journal rankings 2005
236 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Political Science and International Relations has 236 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR rose 0.19 on 2004 to 1.31, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.80. The top three are Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, and British Journal of Political Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 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)
236 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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.14Q1 | 4.76 0.87 down from 2004 | 143 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
2West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.95Q1 | 3.24 1.13 up from 2004 | 140 | 13% | — | ||
3British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.43Q1 | 2.86 0.86 down from 2004 | 107 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
4Legislative Studies QuarterlyWiley · United States | 11.36Q1 | 6.61 6.05 up from 2004 | 121 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
5American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 10.43Q1 | 2.53 0.88 down from 2004 | 280 | 6% | $4,100 | ||
6Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 10.23Q1 | 2.62 0.95 down from 2004 | 1,419 | 1% | — | ||
7Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 10.06Q1 | 2.33 1.82 down from 2004 | 69 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
8Comparative European PoliticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 9.79Q1 | 2.74 1.50 up from 2004 | 34 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
9European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 9.58Q1 | 2.41 0.47 up from 2004 | 177 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
10International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 9.13Q1 | 4.04 0.71 up from 2004 | 89 | 6% | — | ||
11Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 8.41Q1 | 1.83 1.05 down from 2004 | 229 | 1% | — | ||
12Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.80Q1 | 2.75 0.14 down from 2004 | 165 | 4% | — | ||
13Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.29Q1 | 1.98 2.09 down from 2004 | 70 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
14International AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.11Q1 | 1.31 1.61 down from 2004 | 164 | 7% | $4,936 | ||
15Studies in Comparative International DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 7.02Q1 | 1.69 0.67 down from 2004 | 59 | 0% | $3,390 | ||
16GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 6.78Q1 | 2.27 0.41 down from 2004 | 73 | 13% | $3,730 | ||
17Electoral StudiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.38Q1 | 2.11 0.26 down from 2004 | 209 | 6% | $2,840 | ||
18The Journal of PoliticsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 6.33Q1 | 1.93 0.77 up from 2004 | 235 | 1% | — | ||
19Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.21Q1 | 1.91 0.20 down from 2004 | 116 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
20Scandinavian Political StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.16Q1 | 1.43 0.29 down from 2004 | 56 | 5% | $2,950 | ||
21European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.10Q1 | 2.57 0.40 down from 2004 | 51 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
22American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 5.88Q1 | 8.60 7.25 up from 2004 | 427 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
23European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.74Q1 | 1.96 0.86 down from 2004 | 74 | 61% | $3,650 | ||
24Europe Asia StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.63Q1 | 1.47 0.01 up from 2004 | 179 | 5% | — | ||
25JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 5.56Q1 | 1.89 0.67 down from 2004 | 182 | 43% | $4,170 | ||
26Government and OppositionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.07Q1 | 1.62 0.90 up from 2004 | 84 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
27Journal of Education PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 1.65 0.23 down from 2004 | 132 | 16% | — | ||
28Electronic Government an International JournalInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 4.21no 2004 value | 33 | 8% | — | — | |
29Political BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.68Q1 | 1.52 0.42 down from 2004 | 48 | 0% | $2,990 | ||
30Political AnalysisCambridge University Press · United States | 4.68Q1 | 2.24 0.43 up from 2004 | 108 | 19% | $3,550 | ||
31Public Opinion QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 4.65Q1 | 2.04 0.81 up from 2004 | 124 | 11% | $3,969 | ||
32Comparative Studies in Society and HistoryCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.55Q1 | 1.75 1.02 up from 2004 | 137 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
33British Yearbook of International LawOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 0.91 0.78 up from 2004 | 54 | 0% | $4,533 | ||
34Policy & PoliticsPolicy Press · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 1.70 0.29 up from 2004 | 103 | 17% | — | ||
35International Political Science ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 1.39 0.04 down from 2004 | 82 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
36Parliamentary AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 1.34 0.75 up from 2004 | 237 | 8% | $4,468 | ||
37Journal of Social PolicyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 1.44 0.57 down from 2004 | 105 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
38Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.84Q1 | 1.35 0.22 up from 2004 | 157 | 13% | $2,290 | ||
39Regional & Federal StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 0.96 0.37 up from 2004 | 102 | 6% | — | ||
40Acta PoliticaPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 1.18 0.68 up from 2004 | 65 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
41French PoliticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 1.25 0.20 up from 2004 | 36 | 22% | $2,190 | ||
42Studies in American Political DevelopmentCambridge University Press · United States | 3.59Q1 | 1.54 1.36 up from 2004 | 33 | 6% | $3,550 | ||
43Social Policy and AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 1.65 0.45 up from 2004 | 140 | 11% | $4,330 | ||
44East European Politics and Societies and CulturesSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.52Q1 | 1.74 0.67 up from 2004 | 148 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
45Journal of Legislative StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 1.24 0.78 up from 2004 | 98 | 8% | — | ||
46Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 1.58 0.21 up from 2004 | 143 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
47RepresentationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 0.71 0.12 down from 2004 | 105 | 2% | — | ||
48Philosophy & Public AffairsWiley · United States | 3.27Q1 | 1.40 0.04 up from 2004 | 43 | 22% | $3,460 | ||
49Journal of Public PolicyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 2.06 1.64 up from 2004 | 54 | 0% | $3,550 | ||
50Commonwealth and Comparative PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 0.41 0.03 up from 2004 | 52 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Political Science and International Relations highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science742
- Education390
- Political Science and International Relations236
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies39
- Communication35
- Safety Research33
- Health32
- Library and Information Sciences30
- Linguistics and Language30
- Anthropology29
- Transportation28
- Law25
- Demography22
- Urban Studies21
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
65 additional Political Science and International Relations journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 236
- Window papers (baseline)
- 122,173 +22.9% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 1.31 +45.3% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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 | 185 | 187 | 198 | 211 | 222 | 236 | 243 | 248 | 255 | 260 | 270 | 279 | 287 | 287 | 294 | 301 | 308 | 318 | 321 | 326 | 332 | 333 | 339 | 334 | 334 | 322 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 87,090 | 92,551 | 99,427 | 106,761 | 113,825 | 122,173 | 130,947 | 139,764 | 148,869 | 159,463 | 170,900 | 180,910 | 191,534 | 201,200 | 210,369 | 223,416 | 235,982 | 245,820 | 247,938 | 251,957 | 262,579 | 278,323 | 289,523 | 291,064 | 289,519 | 294,162 | |
| Median OJR | 0.81 | 0.99 | 0.90 | 1.09 | 1.12 | 1.31 | 1.27 | 1.42 | 1.603 | 1.68 | 1.77 | 1.74 | 1.73 | 1.78 | 1.69 | 1.83 | 1.92 | 1.87 | 1.723 | 1.85 | 1.67 | 1.71 | 1.602 | 1.63 | 1.52 | 1.718 |
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.