Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Field ranking · 2005
Social Sciences journal rankings 2005
1,765 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Social Sciences has 1,765 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2004 to 1.09, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.18. The top three are Information Systems Research, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Comparative Political Studies.
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.
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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 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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1Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 17.39Q1 | 5.76 4.35 down from 2004 | 71 | 11% | — | ||
2Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 16.23Q1 | 6.74 0.23 down from 2004 | 65 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
3Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.14Q1 | 4.76 0.87 down from 2004 | 143 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
4MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.45Q1 | 7.91 0.61 up from 2004 | 132 | 1% | — | ||
5Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 12.87Q1 | 2.55 0.54 up from 2004 | 121 | 7% | — | ||
6West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.95Q1 | 3.24 1.13 up from 2004 | 140 | 13% | — | ||
7Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.92Q1 | 4.27 0.05 up from 2004 | 238 | 1% | $2,500 | ||
8Annual Review of Applied LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.63Q1 | 2.90 0.94 up from 2004 | 45 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
9British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.43Q1 | 2.86 0.86 down from 2004 | 107 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
10Legislative Studies QuarterlyWiley · United States | 11.36Q1 | 6.61 6.05 up from 2004 | 121 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
11Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.07Q1 | 6.46 0.61 up from 2004 | 41 | 11% | $2,500 | ||
12American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 10.43Q1 | 2.53 0.88 down from 2004 | 280 | 6% | $4,100 | ||
13Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 10.33Q1 | 2.16 0.10 up from 2004 | 48 | 6% | — | ||
14Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 10.23Q1 | 2.62 0.95 down from 2004 | 1,419 | 1% | — | ||
15American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.07Q1 | 4.04 0.98 up from 2004 | 136 | 5% | — | ||
16Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 10.06Q1 | 2.33 1.82 down from 2004 | 69 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
17Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.94Q1 | 3.32 0.19 up from 2004 | 44 | 7% | $4,290 | ||
18Comparative European PoliticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 9.79Q1 | 2.74 1.50 up from 2004 | 34 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
19Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.75Q1 | 3.33 1.33 up from 2004 | 45 | 21% | — | ||
20World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 9.67Q1 | 2.40 0.34 up from 2004 | 101 | 29% | — | ||
21Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.60Q1 | 2.06 1.01 down from 2004 | 67 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
22European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 9.58Q1 | 2.41 0.47 up from 2004 | 177 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
23International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 9.13Q1 | 4.04 0.71 up from 2004 | 89 | 6% | — | ||
24Transportation Research Part B MethodologicalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.92Q1 | 3.57 1.44 up from 2004 | 183 | 14% | $3,810 | ||
25Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.75Q1 | 3.54 0.14 down from 2004 | 160 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
26Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 8.70Q1 | 2.29 0.92 down from 2004 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
27Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 8.41Q1 | 1.83 1.05 down from 2004 | 229 | 1% | — | ||
28American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.22Q1 | 2.10 1.15 down from 2004 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
29Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.19Q1 | 2.69 0.84 down from 2004 | 98 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
30American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.16Q1 | 3.29 0.42 up from 2004 | 226 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
31Online LearningOAOnline Learning Consortium · United States | 7.99Q1 | 3.27 0.44 up from 2004 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of SociolinguisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 7.96Q1 | 1.49 0.49 down from 2004 | 90 | 3% | $3,730 | ||
33TransportationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.91Q1 | 3.39 1.43 up from 2004 | 71 | 11% | $2,990 | ||
34Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 7.84Q1 | 2.94 0.70 up from 2004 | 160 | 15% | $3,910 | ||
35Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.80Q1 | 2.75 0.14 down from 2004 | 165 | 4% | — | ||
36Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.68Q1 | 2.08 0.27 down from 2004 | 123 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
37International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.54Q1 | 2.51 0.32 up from 2004 | 93 | 43% | $4,320 | ||
38CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 7.47Q1 | 3.25 0.72 up from 2004 | 116 | 2% | $3,570 | ||
39Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.35Q1 | 2.50 0.28 down from 2004 | 54 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
40Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.33Q1 | 2.21 0.41 up from 2004 | 56 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
41International Journal of the Sociology of LanguageDe Gruyter · Germany | 7.31Q1 | 1.89 1.64 up from 2004 | 158 | 4% | $2,712 | ||
42Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.29Q1 | 1.98 2.09 down from 2004 | 70 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
43International AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.11Q1 | 1.31 1.61 down from 2004 | 164 | 7% | $4,936 | ||
44Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.05Q1 | 3.97 0.57 up from 2004 | 246 | 5% | $4,540 | ||
45Studies in Comparative International DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 7.02Q1 | 1.69 0.67 down from 2004 | 59 | 0% | $3,390 | ||
46Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.02Q1 | 2.66 0.84 down from 2004 | 70 | 4% | $5,400 | ||
47World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.95Q1 | 3.90 0.69 up from 2004 | 395 | 10% | $5,895 | ||
48Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 6.95Q1 | 2.82 0.82 down from 2004 | 56 | 24% | $5,110 | ||
49Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.90Q1 | 1.83 0.54 down from 2004 | 128 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
50American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.86Q1 | 3.47 0.72 up from 2004 | 91 | 10% | $2,500 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, compared.
- 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.
608 additional Social Sciences 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
- 1,765
- Window papers (baseline)
- 666,449 +27.0% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 1.09 +18.9% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 134Comparison-group list (134)
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 | 1,406 | 1,451 | 1,539 | 1,622 | 1,698 | 1,765 | 1,844 | 1,932 | 2,018 | 2,111 | 2,231 | 2,335 | 2,450 | 2,548 | 2,662 | 2,755 | 2,851 | 2,959 | 2,994 | 3,028 | 3,056 | 3,141 | 3,149 | 3,144 | 3,107 | 3,066 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 443,953 | 481,120 | 524,797 | 573,040 | 615,403 | 666,449 | 723,952 | 792,817 | 867,532 | 946,631 | 1,027,940 | 1,103,353 | 1,185,358 | 1,256,728 | 1,323,833 | 1,400,086 | 1,483,492 | 1,554,301 | 1,600,611 | 1,663,801 | 1,760,718 | 1,914,483 | 2,065,185 | 2,148,493 | 2,214,535 | 2,302,259 | |
| Median OJR | 0.86 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.97 | 1.03 | 1.09 | 1.16 | 1.30 | 1.365 | 1.382 | 1.43 | 1.42 | 1.40 | 1.377 | 1.356 | 1.352 | 1.353 | 1.346 | 1.31 | 1.33 | 1.32 | 1.23 | 1.194 | 1.187 | 1.18 | 1.20 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.7% | 1,882 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.498 per 1,000 | 1,610 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.6% | 2,852 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 58.5% | 3,066 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,400 | 1,164 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 18.2% | 2,785 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 3,066 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 1.22 | 3,041 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 44.4% | 3,066 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 49.7% | 3,059 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.