Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2005
742 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 742 ranked journals in 2005. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.13 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2004. A journal needs OJR 2.38 to reach Q1. The top three are Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Public Culture.
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)
742 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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1Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 17.39Q1 | 5.76 4.35 down from 2004 | 71 | 11% | — | ||
2MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.45Q1 | 7.91 0.61 up from 2004 | 132 | 1% | — | ||
3Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 12.87Q1 | 2.55 0.54 up from 2004 | 121 | 7% | — | ||
4American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.07Q1 | 4.04 0.98 up from 2004 | 136 | 5% | — | ||
5Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.75Q1 | 3.33 1.33 up from 2004 | 45 | 21% | — | ||
6World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 9.67Q1 | 2.40 0.34 up from 2004 | 101 | 29% | — | ||
7Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.60Q1 | 2.06 1.01 down from 2004 | 67 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
8Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 8.70Q1 | 2.29 0.92 down from 2004 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
9Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.19Q1 | 2.69 0.84 down from 2004 | 98 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
10American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.16Q1 | 3.29 0.42 up from 2004 | 226 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
11International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.54Q1 | 2.51 0.32 up from 2004 | 93 | 43% | $4,320 | ||
12CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 7.47Q1 | 3.25 0.72 up from 2004 | 116 | 2% | $3,570 | ||
13Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.35Q1 | 2.50 0.28 down from 2004 | 54 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
14Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.05Q1 | 3.97 0.57 up from 2004 | 246 | 5% | $4,540 | ||
15Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.02Q1 | 2.66 0.84 down from 2004 | 70 | 4% | $5,400 | ||
16World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.95Q1 | 3.90 0.69 up from 2004 | 395 | 10% | $5,895 | ||
17Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 6.95Q1 | 2.82 0.82 down from 2004 | 56 | 24% | $5,110 | ||
18Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.90Q1 | 1.83 0.54 down from 2004 | 128 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
19Theory and SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.81Q1 | 2.68 0.31 up from 2004 | 75 | 4% | $2,890 | ||
20Social ForcesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.78Q1 | 2.39 0.62 up from 2004 | 192 | 7% | $4,152 | ||
21Journal of Theoretical PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.73Q1 | 2.09 0.70 up from 2004 | 76 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
22Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 6.37Q1 | 1.74 0.95 down from 2004 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
23Nations and NationalismWiley · United Kingdom | 6.24Q1 | 1.59 0.55 down from 2004 | 124 | 3% | $3,750 | ||
24Social ProblemsOxford University Press · United States | 6.19Q1 | 3.32 0.99 up from 2004 | 89 | 3% | $4,073 | ||
25Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)Springer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.12Q1 | 3.21 0.47 down from 2004 | 65 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
26Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 6.12Q1 | 2.78 0.13 up from 2004 | 94 | 17% | $4,070 | ||
27New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.99Q1 | 2.49 1.10 up from 2004 | 105 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
28Studies in Conflict and TerrorismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 2.11 1.28 up from 2004 | 79 | 6% | — | ||
29Philosophy of the Social SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.89Q1 | 2.94 2.11 up from 2004 | 75 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
30Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.89Q1 | 1.85 0.03 up from 2004 | 81 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
31The Information SocietyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.67Q1 | 2.68 0.15 up from 2004 | 113 | 10% | — | ||
32Journal of Social IssuesWiley · United States | 5.60Q1 | 2.18 1.35 down from 2004 | 145 | 4% | $3,570 | ||
33European SocietiesOARoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.49Q1 | 1.33 0.92 down from 2004 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
34Gender Place & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 1.86 0.26 down from 2004 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
35International SociologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 1.30 0.26 up from 2004 | 85 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
36British Journal of Social PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 3.19 1.02 up from 2004 | 102 | 5% | $3,970 | ||
37Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.18Q1 | 1.96 0.26 up from 2004 | 152 | 18% | $3,900 | ||
38Justice QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 1.90 1.06 down from 2004 | 90 | 5% | — | ||
39International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.95Q1 | 1.76 0.26 up from 2004 | 199 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
40British Journal of SociologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.94Q1 | 1.86 0.34 up from 2004 | 122 | 12% | $3,840 | ||
41Millennium Journal of International StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.92Q1 | 1.08 0.69 down from 2004 | 63 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
42Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.91Q1 | 2.09 0.49 up from 2004 | 278 | 7% | $4,060 | ||
43Work Employment and SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.91Q1 | 2.52 0.72 up from 2004 | 122 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
44Journal of the American Planning AssociationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.90Q1 | 1.49 0.22 up from 2004 | 125 | 4% | — | ||
45European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 4.90Q1 | 2.75 0.27 up from 2004 | 110 | 14% | — | ||
46Socio-Economic ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.87Q1 | 2.06 0.04 down from 2004 | 50 | 12% | $3,718 | ||
47Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.83Q1 | 2.06 0.37 up from 2004 | 280 | 13% | $4,590 | ||
48Journal of World-Systems ResearchOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 4.78Q1 | 1.86 1.29 up from 2004 | 79 | 100% | — | ||
49The Journal of Development StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 1.88 0.99 up from 2004 | 152 | 16% | — | ||
50DemographyOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.73Q1 | 3.41 1.36 up from 2004 | 185 | 43% | $2,750 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science 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.
238 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 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
- 742
- Window papers (baseline)
- 206,415 +32.7% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 1.1344 +19.1% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 | 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.