Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Domain ranking · 2008
Social Sciences journal rankings 2008
4,222 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 4,222 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2007 to 1.20, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.28. The top three are Strategic Management Journal, International Organization, and American Political Science Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 17.66Q1 | 7.87 2.49 up from 2007 | 238 | 18% | $4,250 | ||
2International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 17.22Q1 | 5.61 0.33 up from 2007 | 96 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
3American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 15.45Q1 | 3.25 0.36 down from 2007 | 188 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
4Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 15.18Q1 | 9.78 3.08 up from 2007 | 222 | 5% | — | ||
5Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 15.05Q1 | 9.32 1.61 up from 2007 | 255 | 11% | — | ||
6Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 14.93Q1 | 5.16 1.21 down from 2007 | 162 | 9% | — | ||
7The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.93Q1 | 6.90 0.33 up from 2007 | 163 | 49% | — | ||
8American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.47Q1 | 5.29 0.26 down from 2007 | 143 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
9MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.31Q1 | 6.64 1.46 down from 2007 | 207 | 3% | — | ||
10American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.63Q1 | 4.55 0.45 down from 2007 | 76 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
11The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 12.62Q1 | 6.58 0.28 up from 2007 | 289 | 21% | $4,430 | ||
12Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.58Q1 | 3.94 1.12 down from 2007 | 107 | 8% | $4,170 | ||
13The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 12.52Q1 | 8.18 0.02 up from 2007 | 58 | 21% | — | ||
14The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 12.43Q1 | 6.90 1.22 up from 2007 | 184 | 11% | $7,619 | ||
15Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.15Q1 | 4.93 1.33 up from 2007 | 41 | 27% | $4,290 | ||
16Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 11.97Q1 | 4.81 0.79 down from 2007 | 190 | 16% | — | ||
17Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 11.65Q1 | 5.09 0.33 down from 2007 | 84 | 10% | — | ||
18Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 11.54Q1 | 5.47 0.09 up from 2007 | 191 | 19% | $4,790 | ||
19Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 11.53Q1 | 4.11 0.08 up from 2007 | 811 | 0% | — | ||
20Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.47Q1 | 4.21 0.02 down from 2007 | 373 | 19% | $4,740 | ||
21American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.33Q1 | 4.61 0.91 down from 2007 | 139 | 9% | — | ||
22The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 11.31Q1 | 5.17 0.67 up from 2007 | 41 | 83% | $3,986 | ||
23Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 11.28Q1 | 5.13 0.63 up from 2007 | 87 | 28% | $4,420 | ||
24Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 11.13Q1 | 3.09 0.26 down from 2007 | 216 | 21% | — | ||
25International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 11.05Q1 | 3.43 0.46 down from 2007 | 100 | 5% | — | ||
26Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.62Q1 | 7.80 5.02 up from 2007 | 111 | 4% | — | ||
27Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.61Q1 | 5.00 0.10 up from 2007 | 315 | 14% | $4,280 | ||
28Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.56Q1 | 3.53 0.51 up from 2007 | 76 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
29Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.55Q1 | 11.63 4.30 up from 2007 | 52 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
30Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 10.19Q1 | 3.22 2.01 down from 2007 | 68 | 31% | $5,110 | ||
31Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.15Q1 | 3.82 0.74 down from 2007 | 131 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
32Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.79Q1 | 10.87 3.71 up from 2007 | 67 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
33Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.76Q1 | 3.40 0.47 down from 2007 | 118 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
34Natural Language SemanticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.73Q1 | 2.39 0.14 up from 2007 | 32 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
35Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.65Q1 | 3.96 0.24 down from 2007 | 188 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
36Political AnalysisCambridge University Press · United States | 9.62Q1 | 3.35 0.58 up from 2007 | 99 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
37European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.30Q1 | 2.96 0.32 up from 2007 | 75 | 63% | $3,650 | ||
38Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.25Q1 | 9.60 2.60 up from 2007 | 58 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
39Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.15Q1 | 2.62 1.10 down from 2007 | 187 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
40CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 9.13Q1 | 3.75 0.36 down from 2007 | 97 | 23% | $3,570 | ||
41Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.10Q1 | 3.15 0.92 down from 2007 | 135 | 16% | $4,638 | ||
42American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 9.04Q1 | 4.44 1.76 up from 2007 | 235 | 15% | $4,100 | ||
43Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.00Q1 | 4.00 0.97 down from 2007 | 128 | 24% | $4,070 | ||
44Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 8.98Q1 | 7.26 1.30 up from 2007 | 355 | 17% | — | ||
45Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.85Q1 | 4.39 1.36 up from 2007 | 64 | 18% | $7,310 | ||
46Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.81Q1 | 5.91 1.69 up from 2007 | 147 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
47European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.74Q1 | 2.84 0.21 down from 2007 | 62 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
48Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.57Q1 | 3.67 0.53 up from 2007 | 45 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
49European Foreign Affairs ReviewSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 8.57Q1 | 2.30 0.74 up from 2007 | 88 | 11% | — | ||
50The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 8.53Q1 | 4.68 1.00 up from 2007 | 200 | 28% | — |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences2,018
- Psychology713
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance581
- Business, Management and Accounting472
- Arts and Humanities329
- Decision Sciences109
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,515 additional Social Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 4,222
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,825,065 +27.5% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 1.196 +19.6% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.