Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2009
899 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 899 ranked journals in 2009. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.38 against 1.00, unchanged on 2008. A journal needs OJR 2.74 to reach Q1. The top three are Criminology, Punishment & Society, and American Sociological Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
899 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 13.23Q1 | 5.34 1.59 up from 2008 | 94 | 13% | $3,570 | ||
2Punishment & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.91Q1 | 7.15 5.92 up from 2008 | 54 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
3American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.31Q1 | 5.02 0.26 down from 2008 | 145 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
4MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 11.69Q1 | 7.06 0.42 up from 2008 | 211 | 5% | — | ||
5Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 11.03Q1 | 4.52 0.57 down from 2008 | 100 | 21% | — | ||
6Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 10.64Q1 | 4.25 0.25 up from 2008 | 128 | 37% | $4,070 | ||
7American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.85Q1 | 4.73 0.13 up from 2008 | 142 | 5% | — | ||
8Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 9.85Q1 | 25.00 7.22 up from 2008 | 33 | 56% | $5,085 | ||
9Games and CultureSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.28Q1 | 2.35 0.03 down from 2008 | 63 | 26% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 8.81Q1 | 7.54 0.28 up from 2008 | 360 | 14% | — | ||
11Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.79Q1 | 10.40 0.47 down from 2008 | 59 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
12World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 8.41Q1 | 2.25 0.18 up from 2008 | 93 | 40% | — | ||
13Qualitative Research in PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.36Q1 | 0.94 4.97 down from 2008 | 62 | 14% | — | ||
14Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 8.14Q1 | 4.63 0.90 up from 2008 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
15Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.12Q1 | 3.61 0.06 down from 2008 | 53 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
16Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 8.10Q1 | 9.31 4.05 up from 2008 | 431 | 69% | $0 listed | ||
17DemographyOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 7.96Q1 | 4.12 0.23 down from 2008 | 132 | 96% | $2,750 | ||
18Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.86Q1 | 6.05 0.60 down from 2008 | 155 | 8% | $6,440 | ||
19Capital & ClassSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.30Q1 | 2.62 0.18 up from 2008 | 145 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
20Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.23Q1 | 2.67 0.74 down from 2008 | 126 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
21International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.08Q1 | 2.40 0.57 down from 2008 | 126 | 22% | $4,320 | ||
22European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.06Q1 | 4.01 0.54 up from 2008 | 189 | 24% | — | ||
23International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.06Q1 | 2.57 0.62 up from 2008 | 133 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
24Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 6.95Q1 | 3.07 0.15 down from 2008 | 86 | 24% | $5,110 | ||
25Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.94Q1 | 3.50 0.74 up from 2008 | 161 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
26Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.89Q1 | 3.16 0.59 up from 2008 | 34 | 32% | $3,590 | ||
27Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.72Q1 | 2.82 0.88 up from 2008 | 48 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
28Work & StressTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.60Q1 | 4.93 2.63 up from 2008 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
29QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society | 6.54Q1 | 1.78 0.60 down from 2008 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
30Security DialogueSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.47Q1 | 2.03 0.08 up from 2008 | 95 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
31Socio-Economic ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.43Q1 | 2.82 0.24 up from 2008 | 92 | 23% | $3,718 | ||
32Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.41Q1 | 2.97 0.09 up from 2008 | 245 | 16% | $4,590 | ||
33Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.37Q1 | 2.73 0.59 up from 2008 | 433 | 13% | $4,690 | ||
34Journal of Interactive AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.32Q1 | 2.74 0.66 up from 2008 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
35Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.23Q1 | 5.68 2.24 up from 2008 | 210 | 7% | $4,540 | ||
36Qualitative ResearchOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.21Q1 | 2.16 0.50 down from 2008 | 93 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
37Journal of Quantitative CriminologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.12Q1 | 3.36 0.38 up from 2008 | 62 | 25% | $4,090 | ||
38Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.12Q1 | 2.04 0.65 down from 2008 | 194 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
39Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.97Q1 | 6.05 2.68 up from 2008 | 56 | 5% | $5,400 | ||
40Political GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 1.95 0.39 down from 2008 | 196 | 16% | $3,540 | ||
41European Sociological ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.73Q1 | 1.82 0.28 down from 2008 | 164 | 19% | $5,323 | ||
42Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 5.72Q1 | 2.14 0.58 down from 2008 | 85 | 31% | $4,050 | ||
43Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.69Q1 | 2.29 0.05 up from 2008 | 288 | 5% | $4,060 | ||
44Discourse & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.56Q1 | 2.15 0.15 up from 2008 | 94 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
45Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.56Q1 | 2.38 0.31 down from 2008 | 62 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
46Social ProblemsOxford University Press · United States | 5.53Q1 | 2.45 0.10 down from 2008 | 105 | 6% | $4,073 | ||
47New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.47Q1 | 3.08 0.64 up from 2008 | 142 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
48Geografiska Annaler Series B Human GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.45Q1 | 1.87 0.73 down from 2008 | 94 | 6% | — | ||
49Justice QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.44Q1 | 2.41 0.12 down from 2008 | 76 | 36% | — | ||
50World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.42Q1 | 2.66 0.81 down from 2008 | 479 | 18% | $5,895 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science899
- Education464
- Political Science and International Relations260
- Gender Studies50
- Communication48
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Health36
- Library and Information Sciences36
- Anthropology35
- Law34
- Transportation33
- Demography29
- Urban Studies28
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
288 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 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 899
- Window papers (baseline)
- 301,558 +34.2% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.3830 +9.1% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.