Journal rankings · indicator year 2007
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Subfield ranking · 2007
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2007
826 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 826 ranked journals in 2007. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2006 to 1.34, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.62. The top three are MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and American Sociological Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. 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 2004–2006, the window the 2007 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)
826 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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007. | Compare |
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1MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 15.39Q1 | 8.10 0.26 up from 2006 | 194 | 5% | — | ||
2Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 12.99Q1 | 5.42 1.02 down from 2006 | 81 | 15% | — | ||
3American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.71Q1 | 5.54 0.91 up from 2006 | 141 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
4American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.70Q1 | 5.52 1.49 up from 2006 | 145 | 3% | — | ||
5Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 10.29Q1 | 5.23 0.69 up from 2006 | 55 | 19% | $5,110 | ||
6Games and CultureSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.09Q1 | 3.15 2.52 up from 2006 | 39 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
7Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.82Q1 | 4.97no change | 106 | 20% | $4,070 | ||
8Geografiska Annaler Series B Human GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.19Q1 | 1.77 1.21 down from 2006 | 80 | 2% | — | ||
9Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 9.06Q1 | 4.48 2.45 up from 2006 | 359 | 58% | $0 listed | ||
10Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.95Q1 | 3.88 0.90 up from 2006 | 127 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
11CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 8.67Q1 | 4.10 0.33 down from 2006 | 100 | 12% | $3,570 | ||
12Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 8.22Q1 | 2.65 0.25 up from 2006 | 81 | 25% | $4,050 | ||
13DemographyOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 8.10Q1 | 3.11 2.32 down from 2006 | 114 | 39% | $2,750 | ||
14Review of International StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 8.08Q1 | 2.46 1.54 up from 2006 | 127 | 15% | $3,550 | ||
15Ethnic and Racial StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.96Q1 | 2.47 0.52 up from 2006 | 144 | 11% | — | ||
16Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.87Q1 | 3.14 0.90 up from 2006 | 51 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
17World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.31Q1 | 1.88 0.52 up from 2006 | 101 | 23% | — | ||
18Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.29Q1 | 2.74 0.12 down from 2006 | 134 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
19Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.07Q1 | 3.10 0.56 down from 2006 | 68 | 16% | $5,400 | ||
20International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 6.93Q1 | 2.45 0.06 up from 2006 | 107 | 19% | $4,320 | ||
21Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.91Q1 | 5.96 1.03 up from 2006 | 309 | 12% | — | ||
22Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.59Q1 | 2.88 0.43 up from 2006 | 138 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
23Journal of Human DevelopmentRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.54Q1 | 3.51 1.63 up from 2006 | 64 | 4% | — | ||
24Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 6.41Q1 | 0.66 0.60 down from 2006 | 98 | 5% | — | ||
25Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.34Q1 | 2.28 0.18 up from 2006 | 281 | 7% | $4,060 | ||
26World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.30Q1 | 3.41 0.19 up from 2006 | 360 | 14% | $5,895 | ||
27Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 6.24Q1 | 7.87 2.43 down from 2006 | 34 | 8% | $5,085 | ||
28Work Employment and SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.19Q1 | 2.83 0.78 up from 2006 | 120 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
29Justice QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.18Q1 | 2.23 0.63 up from 2006 | 77 | 11% | — | ||
30Journal of Planning LiteratureSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.15Q1 | 1.76 0.29 up from 2006 | 45 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
31Journal of Global Information ManagementOAIGI Global · United States | 6.14Q1 | 3.77 0.77 up from 2006 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
32Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)Springer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.13Q1 | 4.02 0.17 down from 2006 | 63 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
33Capital & ClassSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.12Q1 | 2.85 0.99 up from 2006 | 144 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
34Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.95Q1 | 2.12 0.48 up from 2006 | 70 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
35Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.90Q1 | 2.51 1.22 down from 2006 | 229 | 7% | $4,540 | ||
36British Journal of SociologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.89Q1 | 1.90 0.07 down from 2006 | 208 | 7% | $3,840 | ||
37SociologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.80Q1 | 2.65 0.86 up from 2006 | 187 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
38Millennium Journal of International StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.64Q1 | 1.35 0.12 up from 2006 | 95 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
39Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.62Q1 | 3.44 0.04 down from 2006 | 48 | 29% | $3,590 | ||
40Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.60Q1 | 7.15 2.25 up from 2006 | 77 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
41Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.59Q1 | 1.70 0.09 up from 2006 | 222 | 14% | — | ||
42Urban Affairs ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.53Q1 | 2.05 0.12 up from 2006 | 106 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
43Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 5.02 1.42 up from 2006 | 140 | 12% | $6,440 | ||
44Journal of Consumer CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.43Q1 | 2.34 0.75 up from 2006 | 48 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
45International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.38Q1 | 1.55 0.03 up from 2006 | 207 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
46Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 5.37Q1 | 2.31 1.04 down from 2006 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.36Q1 | 2.50 0.35 up from 2006 | 296 | 21% | $4,590 | ||
48Environment and Planning A Economy and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.35Q1 | 2.61 0.74 up from 2006 | 425 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
49New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 1.57 0.74 down from 2006 | 130 | 14% | $3,900 | ||
50Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 2.42 0.63 up from 2006 | 171 | 13% | $3,900 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science826
- Education426
- Political Science and International Relations248
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies43
- Communication38
- Health34
- Library and Information Sciences34
- Safety Research33
- Law32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Demography27
- Transportation27
- Urban Studies25
- Geography, Planning and Development17
- Cultural Studies9
- Development2
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
254 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 2004–2006, 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: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 826
- Window papers (baseline)
- 248,047 +31.1% from indicator year 2004
- Median OJR
- 1.34 +22.8% from indicator year 2004
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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.