Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2008
861 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 861 ranked journals in 2008. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.38 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2007. A journal needs OJR 2.72 to reach Q1. The top three are American Sociological Review, MIS Quarterly, and Information Systems Research.
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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
861 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 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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1American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.47Q1 | 5.29 0.26 down from 2007 | 143 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
2MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.31Q1 | 6.64 1.46 down from 2007 | 207 | 3% | — | ||
3Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 11.65Q1 | 5.09 0.33 down from 2007 | 84 | 10% | — | ||
4American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.33Q1 | 4.61 0.91 down from 2007 | 139 | 9% | — | ||
5Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 10.19Q1 | 3.22 2.01 down from 2007 | 68 | 31% | $5,110 | ||
6Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.79Q1 | 10.87 3.71 up from 2007 | 67 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.76Q1 | 3.40 0.47 down from 2007 | 118 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
8CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 9.13Q1 | 3.75 0.36 down from 2007 | 97 | 23% | $3,570 | ||
9Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.00Q1 | 4.00 0.97 down from 2007 | 128 | 24% | $4,070 | ||
10Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 8.98Q1 | 7.26 1.30 up from 2007 | 355 | 17% | — | ||
11Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.57Q1 | 3.67 0.53 up from 2007 | 45 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
12Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 8.49Q1 | 17.78 9.91 up from 2007 | 35 | 40% | $5,085 | ||
13International Journal of Transitional JusticeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.39Q1 | 1.97no 2007 value | 33 | 15% | $4,534 | — | |
14World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 8.19Q1 | 2.06 0.19 up from 2007 | 96 | 22% | — | ||
15Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.16Q1 | 2.59 0.15 down from 2007 | 144 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
16Justice QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.73Q1 | 2.53 0.30 up from 2007 | 71 | 7% | — | ||
17International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.70Q1 | 2.97 0.52 up from 2007 | 119 | 24% | $4,320 | ||
18Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 7.61Q1 | 2.72 0.07 up from 2007 | 84 | 19% | $4,050 | ||
19DemographyOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 7.59Q1 | 4.35 1.24 up from 2007 | 122 | 92% | $2,750 | ||
20Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 7.57Q1 | 5.25 0.78 up from 2007 | 432 | 63% | $0 listed | ||
21Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.56Q1 | 3.37 0.27 up from 2007 | 62 | 4% | $5,400 | ||
22Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 7.48Q1 | 3.72 1.42 up from 2007 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
23Qualitative Research in PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.41Q1 | 5.91 3.21 up from 2007 | 49 | 18% | — | ||
24Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.39Q1 | 2.57 0.87 down from 2007 | 39 | 25% | $3,590 | ||
25Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.22Q1 | 2.77 0.12 down from 2007 | 150 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
26Journal of Global Information ManagementOAIGI Global · United States | 7.14Q1 | 2.50 1.27 down from 2007 | 47 | 5% | — | ||
27World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.06Q1 | 3.47 0.06 up from 2007 | 392 | 23% | $5,895 | ||
28Games and CultureSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.06Q1 | 2.38 0.77 down from 2007 | 64 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
29Capital & ClassSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.80Q1 | 2.45 0.40 down from 2007 | 149 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
30Ethnic and Racial StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.74Q1 | 1.98 0.49 down from 2007 | 148 | 24% | — | ||
31Review of Income and WealthWiley · United Kingdom | 6.68Q1 | 2.96 1.02 up from 2007 | 102 | 15% | $3,300 | ||
32Urban Affairs ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.47Q1 | 2.08 0.03 up from 2007 | 107 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
33Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.43Q1 | 6.65 1.63 up from 2007 | 134 | 15% | $6,440 | ||
34Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.41Q1 | 2.89 0.39 up from 2007 | 265 | 17% | $4,590 | ||
35Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.32Q1 | 2.69 0.27 up from 2007 | 175 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
36Social ProblemsOxford University Press · United States | 6.20Q1 | 2.55 0.60 up from 2007 | 107 | 4% | $4,073 | ||
37Journal of Human DevelopmentRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.17Q1 | 1.91 1.60 down from 2007 | 67 | 6% | — | ||
38Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.09Q1 | 2.69 0.29 up from 2007 | 59 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
39Socio-Economic ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.98Q1 | 2.59 0.21 down from 2007 | 99 | 29% | $3,718 | ||
40European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 5.90Q1 | 3.47 0.75 up from 2007 | 195 | 22% | — | ||
41Journal of Consumer CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.90Q1 | 2.10 0.25 down from 2007 | 47 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
42Public CultureDuke University Press · United States | 5.81Q1 | 2.29 1.63 up from 2007 | 101 | 5% | — | ||
43AntipodeWiley · United Kingdom | 5.81Q1 | 2.77 0.47 up from 2007 | 215 | 17% | $3,520 | ||
44Journal of Information TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.79Q1 | 2.81 0.73 up from 2007 | 88 | 25% | $3,900 | ||
45Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.68Q1 | 1.94 0.19 down from 2007 | 49 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
46European SocietiesOARoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.59Q1 | 1.52 0.18 up from 2007 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.51Q1 | 1.42 0.27 down from 2007 | 228 | 9% | — | ||
48Group Processes & Intergroup RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.47Q1 | 2.93 0.81 up from 2007 | 94 | 82% | $3,900 | ||
49International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.47Q1 | 1.95 0.40 up from 2007 | 157 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
50Geografiska Annaler Series B Human GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.44Q1 | 2.60 0.83 up from 2007 | 91 | 13% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science861
- Education443
- Political Science and International Relations255
- Public Administration48
- Gender Studies44
- Communication43
- Library and Information Sciences36
- Health35
- Linguistics and Language35
- Law34
- Safety Research34
- Anthropology33
- Demography29
- Urban Studies28
- Transportation27
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
270 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 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
- 861
- Window papers (baseline)
- 274,644 +33.1% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 1.380 +21.7% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 | 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.