Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Political Science and International Relations journal rankings 2006
243 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Political Science and International Relations has 243 ranked journals in 2006. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.27 against 1.00, down 0.04 on 2005. A journal needs OJR 2.71 to reach Q1. The top three are American Political Science Review, The Pacific Review, and Journal of European Public Policy.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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)
243 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 16.76Q1 | 4.38 4.21 down from 2005 | 134 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
2The Pacific ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.08Q1 | 2.52 1.62 up from 2005 | 75 | 8% | — | ||
3Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 9.84Q1 | 3.02 0.27 up from 2005 | 179 | 19% | — | ||
4Philosophy & Public AffairsWiley · United States | 9.40Q1 | 3.33 1.94 up from 2005 | 61 | 8% | $3,460 | ||
5British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 8.89Q1 | 2.68 0.18 down from 2005 | 117 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
6West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.79Q1 | 2.34 0.90 down from 2005 | 144 | 18% | — | ||
7Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.23Q1 | 1.88 2.88 down from 2005 | 135 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
8Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 7.77Q1 | 2.76 0.14 up from 2005 | 1,310 | 1% | — | ||
9International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 7.64Q1 | 3.00 1.04 down from 2005 | 94 | 6% | — | ||
10European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.51Q1 | 2.16 0.41 down from 2005 | 54 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
11Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 7.46Q1 | 2.13 0.30 up from 2005 | 218 | 0% | — | ||
12Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 7.40Q1 | 2.15 0.18 down from 2005 | 69 | 10% | $4,030 | ||
13GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 6.79Q1 | 2.44 0.17 up from 2005 | 86 | 8% | $3,730 | ||
14Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.77Q1 | 2.57 0.59 up from 2005 | 70 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
15American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 6.30Q1 | 1.76 0.77 down from 2005 | 347 | 15% | $4,100 | ||
16Comparative European PoliticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 6.23Q1 | 1.81 0.92 down from 2005 | 54 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
17Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.98Q1 | 1.97 0.39 up from 2005 | 135 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
18Journal of Education PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.64Q1 | 1.82 0.17 up from 2005 | 126 | 10% | — | ||
19International AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.64Q1 | 1.34 0.03 up from 2005 | 183 | 3% | $4,936 | ||
20The China QuarterlyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.53Q1 | 1.75 0.67 up from 2005 | 141 | 6% | $3,550 | ||
21Government and OppositionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 1.77 0.15 up from 2005 | 82 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
22European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 5.22Q1 | 1.86 0.55 down from 2005 | 214 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
23American Politics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.83Q1 | 1.23 0.48 up from 2005 | 94 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
24Journal of Social PolicyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.62Q1 | 1.88 0.43 up from 2005 | 104 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
25The Journal of PoliticsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.52Q1 | 1.22 0.71 down from 2005 | 260 | 5% | — | ||
26Studies in Comparative International DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.45Q1 | 1.61 0.08 down from 2005 | 60 | 6% | $3,390 | ||
27Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.36Q1 | 1.94 0.59 up from 2005 | 152 | 10% | $2,290 | ||
28Comparative EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 1.46 0.24 up from 2005 | 89 | 0% | — | ||
29Political BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 1.38 0.14 down from 2005 | 49 | 0% | $2,990 | ||
30Public Opinion QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 4.20Q1 | 1.79 0.25 down from 2005 | 133 | 5% | $3,969 | ||
31European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 2.04 0.08 up from 2005 | 76 | 67% | $3,650 | ||
32EthnopoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 1.00 1.00 up from 2005 | 30 | 19% | — | ||
33Acta PoliticaPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 1.07 0.10 down from 2005 | 102 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
34Ethics & International AffairsCambridge University Press · United States | 3.88Q1 | 1.55 0.24 up from 2005 | 109 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
35The British Journal of Politics and International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 1.32 0.12 up from 2005 | 115 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
36Police QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.79Q1 | 1.17 0.29 up from 2005 | 67 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
37Politics Philosophy & EconomicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.69Q1 | 1.03 0.50 up from 2005 | 49 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
38European Foreign Affairs ReviewSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 3.68Q1 | 1.22 0.13 up from 2005 | 81 | 6% | — | ||
39Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and PracticeRoutledge · Netherlands | 3.58Q1 | 2.33 1.68 up from 2005 | 58 | 9% | — | ||
40Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 1.10 0.81 down from 2005 | 112 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
41East European Politics and Societies and CulturesSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.32Q1 | 0.63 1.11 down from 2005 | 107 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
42Policy & PoliticsPolicy Press · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 1.49 0.21 down from 2005 | 104 | 3% | — | ||
43Electoral StudiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.24Q1 | 0.63 1.47 down from 2005 | 221 | 14% | $2,840 | ||
44State Politics & Policy QuarterlyCambridge University Press · United States | 3.22Q1 | 1.02 0.12 down from 2005 | 63 | 15% | $3,550 | ||
45DemocratizationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 0.90 0.26 up from 2005 | 123 | 8% | — | ||
46Europe Asia StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 1.00 0.47 down from 2005 | 168 | 6% | — | ||
47Higher Education QuarterlyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 0.77 0.10 down from 2005 | 60 | 7% | $2,900 | ||
48Asian SurveyUniversity of California Press · United States | 3.04Q1 | 0.64 0.15 down from 2005 | 183 | 4% | — | ||
49Social Policy and AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 1.04 0.60 down from 2005 | 147 | 11% | $4,330 | ||
50Journal of Public PolicyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 0.59 1.47 down from 2005 | 52 | 22% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Political Science and International Relations highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science776
- Education409
- Political Science and International Relations243
- Public Administration45
- Gender Studies44
- Communication38
- Health34
- Safety Research34
- Linguistics and Language31
- Library and Information Sciences30
- Anthropology29
- Demography27
- Transportation27
- Law25
- Urban Studies22
- Geography, Planning and Development17
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% 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 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 243
- Window papers (baseline)
- 130,947 +22.7% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 1.27 +16.7% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.