Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2006
776 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 776 ranked journals in 2006. The median OJR rose 0.13 on 2005 to 1.27, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.59. The top three are MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Administrative Science Quarterly.
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)
776 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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1MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 16.73Q1 | 7.85 0.06 down from 2005 | 167 | 3% | — | ||
2Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 11.56Q1 | 6.44 0.68 up from 2005 | 74 | 13% | — | ||
3Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.94Q1 | 2.86 0.17 up from 2005 | 113 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
4American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.65Q1 | 4.03 0.02 down from 2005 | 141 | 5% | — | ||
5Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 8.80Q1 | 4.53 1.72 up from 2005 | 56 | 15% | $5,110 | ||
6American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.80Q1 | 4.63 1.34 up from 2005 | 183 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
7CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 8.53Q1 | 4.44 1.19 up from 2005 | 119 | 5% | $3,570 | ||
8Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 8.44Q1 | 4.97 2.19 up from 2005 | 104 | 16% | $4,070 | ||
9Geografiska Annaler Series B Human GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.59Q1 | 2.98 0.88 up from 2005 | 66 | 11% | — | ||
10International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.53Q1 | 2.39 0.12 down from 2005 | 98 | 25% | $4,320 | ||
11Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.51Q1 | 2.24 0.26 down from 2005 | 50 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
12Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 7.26Q1 | 3.35 1.61 up from 2005 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
13Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.02Q1 | 3.66 1.00 up from 2005 | 71 | 14% | $5,400 | ||
14World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.00Q1 | 3.22 0.69 down from 2005 | 381 | 16% | $5,895 | ||
15DemographyOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 6.65Q1 | 5.42 2.01 up from 2005 | 145 | 38% | $2,750 | ||
16Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 6.46Q1 | 1.26 1.29 down from 2005 | 102 | 2% | — | ||
17Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.46Q1 | 4.93 0.14 up from 2005 | 304 | 6% | — | ||
18Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.42Q1 | 3.73 0.24 down from 2005 | 249 | 2% | $4,540 | ||
19Journal for the Anthropology of North AmericaWiley · United States | 6.40Q1 | 0.15 3.38 down from 2005 | 31 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
20World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 6.33Q1 | 1.36 1.03 down from 2005 | 102 | 30% | — | ||
21British Journal of SociologyWiley · United Kingdom | 6.27Q1 | 1.98 0.11 up from 2005 | 163 | 6% | $3,840 | ||
22International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.20Q1 | 1.52 0.25 down from 2005 | 199 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
23Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.06Q1 | 3.49 0.97 up from 2005 | 49 | 22% | $3,590 | ||
24Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 6.04Q1 | 10.30 3.25 up from 2005 | 32 | 0% | $5,085 | ||
25The Information SocietyTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.03Q1 | 2.18 0.50 down from 2005 | 130 | 18% | — | ||
26Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.97Q1 | 2.10 0.01 up from 2005 | 266 | 5% | $4,060 | ||
27Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 5.95Q1 | 2.40 0.73 up from 2005 | 82 | 12% | $4,050 | ||
28New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.55Q1 | 2.31 0.17 down from 2005 | 109 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
29Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.51Q1 | 2.98 1.14 up from 2005 | 126 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
30Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)Springer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.48Q1 | 4.19 0.98 up from 2005 | 59 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
31International SociologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.40Q1 | 1.48 0.18 up from 2005 | 86 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
32Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 5.31Q1 | 1.94 0.35 down from 2005 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
33Theoretical CriminologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.24Q1 | 3.34 1.54 up from 2005 | 60 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
34Ethnic and Racial StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 1.96 0.91 up from 2005 | 154 | 12% | — | ||
35Group Processes & Intergroup RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.01Q1 | 1.74 0.11 down from 2005 | 81 | 54% | $3,900 | ||
36Sociology of ReligionOxford University Press · United States | 5.01Q1 | 1.34 0.19 down from 2005 | 164 | 2% | $3,492 | ||
37Social ProblemsOxford University Press · United States | 4.98Q1 | 1.68 1.64 down from 2005 | 93 | 8% | $4,073 | ||
38Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.96Q1 | 2.45 0.87 up from 2005 | 136 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
39Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.94Q1 | 1.79 0.17 down from 2005 | 157 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
40Journal of Planning LiteratureSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.90Q1 | 1.47 0.51 up from 2005 | 39 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
41EthnosRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 1.23 0.69 up from 2005 | 81 | 14% | — | ||
41Social ForcesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 1.61 0.77 down from 2005 | 266 | 2% | $4,152 | ||
43Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.88Q1 | 4.91 1.55 up from 2005 | 81 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
44Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.87Q1 | 1.61 0.81 up from 2005 | 183 | 15% | — | ||
45Theory Culture & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.86Q1 | 1.96 0.73 up from 2005 | 152 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
46Journal of the American Planning AssociationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.83Q1 | 1.62 0.13 up from 2005 | 127 | 4% | — | ||
47Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.77Q1 | 2.15 0.08 up from 2005 | 319 | 15% | $4,590 | ||
48Justice QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.75Q1 | 1.60 0.30 down from 2005 | 83 | 9% | — | ||
49City and CommunitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.69Q1 | 1.28 0.47 up from 2005 | 57 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
50Social Psychology QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.64Q1 | 1.78 0.20 down from 2005 | 78 | 4% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science 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.
249 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 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
- 776
- Window papers (baseline)
- 224,690 +29.4% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 1.27 +28.1% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 | 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.