Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Domain ranking · 2005
Social Sciences journal rankings 2005
3,684 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 3,684 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 1.99. The top three are The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Information Systems Research, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
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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1The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 19.13Q1 | 9.73 1.48 up from 2004 | 125 | 13% | $7,619 | ||
2Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 17.39Q1 | 5.76 4.35 down from 2004 | 71 | 11% | — | ||
3Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 16.23Q1 | 6.74 0.23 down from 2004 | 65 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
4Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.14Q1 | 4.76 0.87 down from 2004 | 143 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
5Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 15.05Q1 | 4.64 0.48 down from 2004 | 175 | 17% | — | ||
6The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.84Q1 | 5.31 0.13 down from 2004 | 154 | 44% | — | ||
7MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.45Q1 | 7.91 0.61 up from 2004 | 132 | 1% | — | ||
8Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 13.28Q1 | 5.61 0.85 up from 2004 | 234 | 9% | $4,250 | ||
9Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 12.87Q1 | 2.55 0.54 up from 2004 | 121 | 7% | — | ||
10Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.19Q1 | 6.21 0.36 down from 2004 | 130 | 5% | $5,400 | ||
11West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.95Q1 | 3.24 1.13 up from 2004 | 140 | 13% | — | ||
12Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.92Q1 | 4.27 0.05 up from 2004 | 238 | 1% | $2,500 | ||
13International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 11.82Q1 | 3.95 0.23 up from 2004 | 100 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
14Annual Review of Applied LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.63Q1 | 2.90 0.94 up from 2004 | 45 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
15Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.60Q1 | 5.11 0.06 down from 2004 | 333 | 4% | — | ||
16British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.43Q1 | 2.86 0.86 down from 2004 | 107 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
17Legislative Studies QuarterlyWiley · United States | 11.36Q1 | 6.61 6.05 up from 2004 | 121 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
18Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.07Q1 | 6.46 0.61 up from 2004 | 41 | 11% | $2,500 | ||
19The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 10.89Q1 | 4.71 1.04 down from 2004 | 331 | 27% | $4,430 | ||
20American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 10.43Q1 | 2.53 0.88 down from 2004 | 280 | 6% | $4,100 | ||
21Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 10.33Q1 | 2.16 0.10 up from 2004 | 48 | 6% | — | ||
22Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 10.23Q1 | 2.62 0.95 down from 2004 | 1,419 | 1% | — | ||
23American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.07Q1 | 4.04 0.98 up from 2004 | 136 | 5% | — | ||
24Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 10.06Q1 | 2.33 1.82 down from 2004 | 69 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
25Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.94Q1 | 3.32 0.19 up from 2004 | 44 | 7% | $4,290 | ||
26Comparative European PoliticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 9.79Q1 | 2.74 1.50 up from 2004 | 34 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
27Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.75Q1 | 3.33 1.33 up from 2004 | 45 | 21% | — | ||
28World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 9.67Q1 | 2.40 0.34 up from 2004 | 101 | 29% | — | ||
29Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.60Q1 | 2.06 1.01 down from 2004 | 67 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
30European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 9.58Q1 | 2.41 0.47 up from 2004 | 177 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
31Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.18Q1 | 3.64 0.44 up from 2004 | 144 | 15% | $4,299 | ||
32International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 9.13Q1 | 4.04 0.71 up from 2004 | 89 | 6% | — | ||
33Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 9.12Q1 | 2.02 1.07 up from 2004 | 61 | 7% | — | ||
34The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 9.09Q1 | 3.98 0.49 down from 2004 | 135 | 2% | — | ||
35Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 9.03Q1 | 4.34 0.44 up from 2004 | 105 | 18% | $4,420 | ||
36Transportation Research Part B MethodologicalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.92Q1 | 3.57 1.44 up from 2004 | 183 | 14% | $3,810 | ||
37Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.87Q1 | 3.49 1.55 down from 2004 | 284 | 10% | $4,740 | ||
38The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 8.87Q1 | 5.19 2.60 up from 2004 | 39 | 83% | $3,986 | ||
39Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.86Q1 | 2.38 1.10 down from 2004 | 101 | 19% | $4,638 | ||
40Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.75Q1 | 3.54 0.14 down from 2004 | 160 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
41Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 8.70Q1 | 2.29 0.92 down from 2004 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
42Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.68Q1 | 3.95 0.08 down from 2004 | 190 | 2% | — | ||
43Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.68Q1 | 3.88 0.14 down from 2004 | 333 | 7% | $4,280 | ||
44The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.52Q1 | 4.26 0.15 down from 2004 | 149 | 17% | $6,530 | ||
45Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.46Q1 | 2.84 1.24 down from 2004 | 96 | 9% | $4,170 | ||
46Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 8.42Q1 | 3.95 0.53 up from 2004 | 160 | 10% | $4,790 | ||
47Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 8.41Q1 | 1.83 1.05 down from 2004 | 229 | 1% | — | ||
48California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.36Q1 | 3.04 0.28 down from 2004 | 99 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
49Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.28Q1 | 3.29 2.07 down from 2004 | 55 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
50American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.22Q1 | 2.10 1.15 down from 2004 | 46 | 0% | — |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences1,765
- Psychology627
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance514
- Business, Management and Accounting393
- Arts and Humanities288
- Decision Sciences97
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.
1,310 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
- 3,684
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,431,668 +20.5% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 1.0001 +13.2% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
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 |
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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.